Ubuntu
casper package

  1. Bug #62868
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 62868

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robepisc (robepisc) wrote : Re: Re: [Bug 62868] Re: Broken PATH set by casper (Was: swap partitions not automounted by the LiveCD)

Aniruddha Shankar:
> For people like me who are rolling their own custom LiveCDs before
> Feisty is released, is there a patch to the script(s) that can be
> applied to fix the problem?

Aniruddha, you need to change the PATH set in the /scripts/casper script which is inside the initramfs image (/casper/initrd.gz) of the LiveCD.

For an HOWTO about extracting and rebuilding an initrd.gz file, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CustomizeLiveInitrd (section "Modify the initrd").

Inside the script /scripts/casper, edit the line which sets the PATH ("export PATH=/root/usr/bin:/root/usr/sbin:/root/bin:/root/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin") to simply be:
  export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin

Then rebuild the initrd.gz file and put it in the /casper/ directory of your customized LiveCD.

If you have some problem, feel free to mail me directly (you can find my email address at https://launchpad.net/~robepisc).