2007/11/10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1) Can the partition holding the iso be mounted under the LFS
LiveCD environment?
Yes.
2) Why is "rw" passed to the kernel;
It is needed in order for you to be able to mount this partition
read-write. I.e., this partition is already mounted in a hidden place
(/dev/shm/.partition), and you are also trying to mount it somewhere
else. This works only if both mounts are read-only, or both are read-write.
does the LiveCD change the iso
now that it's running from a rewritable medium?
No, "rw" is added just to avoid the "why can I mount my partition only
read-only?" question.
Could I add files
to the iso when running from it, and still have them when I reboot?
No, your changes don't survive the reboot. A separate howto about
installing a LiveCD onto a partition in such a way that the changes
survive a reboot is available from me via private mail, on the following
conditions:
1) you won't redistribute it
2) you have built at least one recent LFS (6.2, 6.3 or SVN) manually
3) you realize that the LiveCD contents differ from LFS (e.g., all
shared libraries are deleted, ncurses built with GPM support, and so on)
4) you unsubscribe from lfs-support and blfs-support lists and agree to
be banned from LFS IRC server
Such conditions are necessary because this howto was abused in the past
more than once.
3) Are the /boot and /drivers folders used when booting the image
from a hard drive? Can the iso be extracted to a partition and
booted as if the iso was in that partition? Or would it even be
possible to extract the root.ext2 to an ext2 partition, boot from
that, and be able to add files?
See above. Some fixes (described in that howto) are needed for root.ext2
to be used as a partition image.
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