[Novalug] Fedora 12

James Ewing Cottrell 3rd JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Thu Dec 10 02:21:10 EST 2009


Would the files in this image include /var/lib/rpm? That's where the rpm 
database is stored*.

JIM

* unless it's not, in which case I meant to say the correct pathname, 
but I'm too lazy to look it up.

Walt Smith wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Since there's been some mention of F12,
> I thought I'd relate a few pieces of info associated with
> the installation using the LiveCD.
> 
> I used the Gnome version.
> When the Live CD installs, it apparently installs a binary image
> to the hard drive rather than installing RPM packages.
> IOW, one big image is copied with dirs and files.
> 
> There are apparently no RPM's on the CD.
> There are no kde files of any kind,
> including no qt files.  There is Abiword and
> no OpenOffice.  There is Firefox 3.5.4.
> There is no gimp.  There is a image viewer.
> There installs SElinux, default is LVM, and there is a firewall.
> 
> The squashfs is viewable doing the following.
> 1. mount the CD to /mnt
> 2. $ cd   til you find the .img file.
> 3. then mount the image file also to /mnt.
> ( as I recall).
> 
> Since the Live CD is an image copy, I don't believe it
> should be used to "restore" anything.  It'd probably just rewrite
> everything.  IOW- it'd erase anything you had on the HD.
> 
> I don't have a guess if it would make a good "rescue CD" ..
> 
> I now have the DVD ordered..
> 
> Walt ......... 
> 
> 
> 
> I was able to mount the squashfs image.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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