Bug 1287050 - [RFE] Enable building an ISO from a squashfs
Summary: [RFE] Enable building an ISO from a squashfs
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: lorax
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Fabian Deutsch
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: ovirt-node-ng
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Reported: 2015-12-01 11:57 UTC by Fabian Deutsch
Modified: 2015-12-22 17:17 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-22 17:17:41 UTC
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Description Fabian Deutsch 2015-12-01 11:57:27 UTC 
Description of problem:
It should be possible to generate an ISO from a given squashfs, this is currently not possible.
Comment 1 Brian Lane 2015-12-22 16:40:02 UTC 
The squashfs.img/install.img doesn't have enough information to create an iso from it -- it is missing the kernel and the initrd, as well as some of the modules and various other things removed by runtime-cleanup.tmpl
Comment 2 Fabian Deutsch 2015-12-22 17:17:41 UTC 
Right

What about being able to generate the iso from the artifacts of the --make-pxe-live switch and a regular CentOS/RHEL boot.iso?
This should provide enough informations and the necessary kernel+initrd.

The story behind this feature is to be able to let users retrieve or generate a squashfs (plus APPEND line), take a boot.iso, hand both to lmc and get an installation iso from it.



But - No recapping this story, I think this is already possible today using:
livecd-iso-to-disk, a boot.iso, the squashfs and a small kickstart.
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