This repository contains kickstart files to build a livecd with foreman pre-installed and configured on boot.
Howto is based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_a_Live_CD
You must install tools using command (to be found in EPEL)
yum install livecd-tools spin-kickstarts
You need kickstart and other scripts file from this github repository, so you should
git clone https://github.com/theforeman/foreman-live
cd foreman-live
Then you must download discovery images, we currently use those from http://downloads.theforeman.org/discovery/releases/
wget http://downloads.theforeman.org/discovery/releases/latest/foreman-discovery-image-latest.el6.iso-img
wget http://downloads.theforeman.org/discovery/releases/latest/foreman-discovery-image-latest.el6.iso-vmlinuz
You also need to download puppet modules. You can use get_modules.sh script (you must have git installed on your system)
Now you can the create a cd using this following command
livecd-creator --verbose --config=foreman-live-centos.ks
This will create CentOS-Foreman-Live.iso. I recommend using cache so you don't have to download all packages for every build. To setup cache you must pass extra argument like this
livecd-creator --verbose --config=foreman-live-centos.ks --cache=/var/cache/live
For the first time it will download a lot of data so it will take a lot of time. If you want to modify existing iso (so you don't spend much time on reinstalling whole base system every time you create new version) you can use --base-on parameter. It will check installed packages on that image and add only missing. For some reason it does not work for me, probably because of some package detection (lokkit) issue. However you may try it
livecd-creator --verbose --config=foreman-live-centos.ks --cache=/var/cache/live --base-on=livecd-foreman-live-centos-201403180812.iso
LiveCD has hardcoded network to run on 192.168.223.0/24 network, livecd.localdomain is binded on 192.168.223.2 and gateway is set to 192.168.223.1. You can create network in libvirt accordingly (NAT with disabled DHCP).
After your LiveCD boots up you must manually set networking using
echo "nameserver 192.168.223.1\nnameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
Then you can run foreman_setup.sh script (under root)