<Solved>creating a livecd on 2012.12

[gezza]

Hi to all,
I have tried to create a livecd or usb stick on 2 quite different machines.
Depending upon the size of file system to backup I create a livecd or usb stick but the system is not installable.
The devices boots but the screen just shown a blue line going across the screen, no booting system shows. OR the dvd/usb get up but is not capable of being installed on any machine. It stops at sizing the system.
Please help!!!
Gezza

[ternor]

Just to be clear, do you mean that you created an iso of the system on each machine using mylivecd?

If so, please post the code you used.

[gezza]

I can only do it for 1 machine as the other has had many re-install.
Machine 1............
mylivecd --xz --workdir=/mnt/data2T/workdir --nodir=^/mnt,^/media /mnt/data2T/workdir/my32-2012.12-01012913A.iso
df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              30G  5.4G   23G  20% /
/dev/sda2              27G  5.2G   22G  20% /home
/dev/sdb2             1.9T  1.2T  539G  70% /mnt/data2T

end machine 1.
Hope this helps?
Gezza
+1....
I tried again to produce a livecd on this machine, it failed after booting just as above. It also would not connect to the internet??
I then tried to create the livecd on my 2012.08 machine, a Compaq laptop 1 cpu and 1Gb ram, it was created in 4 hours and is now installing on a second machine.
Gezza

[ternor]

It would not have occurred to me to place the iso in the 'workdir'.  I don't know whether that is a problem or not.  Have you used that code successfully until now?

I also use the "--md5sum" tag to embed an md5sum which I am then able to check using an oldish script.  I don't know of any other way to check the md5sum of a disk.

[corazon]

k3b generates an md5 when loading an iso file from hard-disk

When I ran mylivecd, with working dir on windows partition,
without choosing a name/path, livecd.iso wound up in
/home/name.

[atolboo]

Maybe you should do a

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cd / before the 'mylivecd ...' command

[ternor]

I specify a path for 'workdir' and a different path for the iso.  I don't know why the live media don't work.  I had many problems with k3b and now use GnomeBaker (without any issues).  For a live usb there is a special application for PCLinuxOS.  In Synaptic the application is called PCLinuxOS-liveusb.  Once installed it is in the menu More Applications > Configuration.

[gezza]

Hhi to all,
I did a fresh (new) install, udated the syste, installed some more files (200). Rebooted between ops.
The new install also meant a reformat of all partitions
Created a new iso with mylivecd.--Burn speed 2 X.
Booted the iso on another system
It stopped at----Unable to copy files to new root---- at this point how much of the system is installed?
Sorry guys, I still need help to get 2012.12 working.
Gezza