experiences building Live CD with systemtap and kernel debuginfo

[Mike Mason]

That's great!  Thanks for all your efforts in getting this working.  I look forward to trying it out when it's available for download.

Mike

William Cohen wrote:
> Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>> William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>>> A few more comments on building Live CD. The bugs that appear to be
>>> prevent systemtap from operating on a rawhide system are:
>>> [...]
>>> There are some examples include in /usr/share/doc/systemtap-0.5.12/,
>>> but the RPM for rawhide is a bit older and does not contain the
>>> examples.
>>
>> How about building a demo based on FC6 rather than rawhide?
>>
>> - FChE
> 
> I was able to create a liveCD iso based off of FC6 that included the 
> things to run systemtap. This was based on on the:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo
> 
> The following command built the CD image and includes a work around to 
> avoid including an older kernel update:
> 
> 
> livecd-creator \
> --repo=c6,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/os/ 
> \
> --repo=c6di,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/6/i386/debug/ 
> \
> --repo=c6_upd,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/ 
> \
> --repo=c6_updi,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/debug/ 
> \
> --repo=lcd6,http://people.redhat.com/davidz/livecd/i386/ \
> --repo=e6,http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/ 
> \
> --package=fedora-livecd-gnome \
> --package=kernel-debuginfo \
> --package=kernel-devel \
> --exclude-package=kernel \
> --package=systemtap \
> --fslabel=Fedora-6-systemtap-20070302  >& livecd-staptut.log &
> 
> I burned the image and booted up an IBM Thinkpad T41 with the disk, 
> opened a terminal, then:
> 
> su -
> cd /usr/share/doc/systemtap-0.5.12/examples
> stap helloworld.stp
> 
> The hellowworld ran as expected.
> I was also able to /usr/share/doc/systemtap-0.5.12/examples/small_demos/ 
> such as kmalloc2.stp
> 
> 
> The iso is 610MB in size. Any suggestions on where to put the iso, so 
> other people can try it?
> 
> 
> 
> -Will
> 
> 
>