Example of OMSA+Firmware LiveCd

Michael E Brown Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Thu Aug 16 17:01:51 CDT 2007


On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:42:16PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> I am currently running around 650 MB on the image.. and am trying to
> figure out how to cut it down. One thing that I have noticed is that
> the size is 'randomly' dependant on how files get laid out into the
> squashfs... This means that running the build against the same
> repository multiple times will give you images of various sizes
> dependant on how well it was able to 'squash' things[ The size
> difference seems to be +/- 20 Megs on the finished image].
> 
> I have had to remove various gui items.. so don't expect to look at
> any pdf's :). I have a basic make_dell_cd.sh script that updates the
> bios names and such.. but this morning it started deciding to bail on
> something that it hadnt last night so I am leery of sharing it.
> Instead I have the kickstart that will pop out of it.
> 
> Hope this helps.

Thanks. If you send the script, I'll take a look... :)

Otherwise, I'll take the ks and see what I can set up on my end, between
all the other things I have going on... :(
--
Michael



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