# Does Livecd-Creator work on a freshly-installed Rocky-8-XFCE-x86\_64-latest distro? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rocky Linux Help & Support\ **Created:** [June 25, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/does-livecd-creator-work-on-a-freshly-installed-rocky-8-xfce-x86-64-latest-distro/10437 "2023-06-25T15:50:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LenE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@LenE](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/LenE)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 3:50pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/does-livecd-creator-work-on-a-freshly-installed-rocky-8-xfce-x86-64-latest-distro/10437/1 "2023-06-25T15:50:45Z")
The title of this post is entered as a question arising from recent experiences in using livecd-creator on Rocky-8.8 distro installations. Test Platform The test machine for Rocky-8.8 .iso installs was a HP Compaq DC5800 which has predominately-Intel device controllers and graphics card. Concept for On-Going Generation of Suitable Distros from Kickstarts In order to minimize the effort in generating new distros from kickstarts for new releases of Rocky 8, a 3-partition installation for Rocky 8.8 was chosen, with a root partition for successive Rocky 8 releases, a swap paritition, and a /home partition which would NOT be reformatted from one install to the next to provide for an accumulation of developed .ks files, and a repository for rebuilt application software and other data with projected future usage. Initial installation and tests The Rocky-8-XFCE-x86\_64-latest.iso, upon release of Rocky-8.8, was downloaded and installed on the test machine. Livecd-creator runs were attempted on two .ks files available from earlier work: -rocky-8-xfce-elrepo.ks, provided by nazunalika -rocky-8-xfce-customelrepo.ks, which provided access to a CD containing repositories for the Fedora-29 kernel modules and the Fedora-27 graphics modules. Both files required that the explicit references to version 8.7 repositories be changed to version 8 repositories, implying that the latest such repositories would be used. Livecd-creator runs with the latter of the 2 .ks files always failed with one of 2 errors: -/usr/bin/mandb: /usr/share/man/man3/rpc.3 no such file or directory -error: Rocky Linux-8 Appstream Errors during downloading meta data for repository “Appstream” curl error(6) couldn’t resolve host name for [https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirror.list](https://mirrors.rockylinux.org/mirror.list) ? Livecd-creator runs with the former of the 2 .ks files always failed with the 2nd error. No remedies prescribed in web articles about similar errors, such as running dnf clean, helped. * * * In trying to determine what was going wrong with the current tests, I reviewed my past work: -The earliest efforts with livecd-creator were conducted on this same test machine with Rocky-8.7- minimal installed. -The recent efforts with livecd-creator were conducted on a HP Pavilion Media Center m8247C with SATA disk controllers and nvidia graphics card, with rocky-8-xfce-elrepo.iso installed. This meant that the current tests, for the first time, were being attempted on a 1st-generation live Rocky .iso. * * * I decided to replace the current rocky-8-xfce-x86\_64 latest install on the test machine with the most-easily installed, graphics-enabled distro that could be assembled, a rocky-8.8-minimal .iso with e16 and icewm light-weight desktops. I followed the procedure described in the forum post, ```auto https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/e16-and-icewm-light-weight-desktops-for-rocky-8-6/7612 ``` The current/latest version of e16 is e16-1.0.27. The livecd-creator runs that previously failed now successfully completed. * * * Another way to phrase the subject question: Is there some characteristic in 1st-generation Rocky live .iso’s that prevent livecd-creator from working properly ??? Len E. ---
**Author:** ![LenE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@LenE](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/LenE)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/does-livecd-creator-work-on-a-freshly-installed-rocky-8-xfce-x86-64-latest-distro/10437/2 "2023-06-25T23:58:44Z")
It should be noted that the testing failures occurred near the end of the livecd-creator runs, after an elapsed time of approximately 1/2 hour. Len E. ---
**Author:** ![label](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@label](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/label)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 2:12am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/does-livecd-creator-work-on-a-freshly-installed-rocky-8-xfce-x86-64-latest-distro/10437/3 "2023-06-26T02:12:54Z")
livecd-creator and the live image you’re installing (and subsequently running livecd-creator on) are mutually exclusive. livecd-creator may work, it may not work. the environment it runs in could allow it to work, but it may not work. This is precisely why we use livemedia-creator in a mock chroot, because livecd-creator tends to be unreliable in that regard. I would suggest that if you are having so many issues with livecd-creator that you use livemedia-creator instead. ---
**Author:** ![LenE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7bcc69/32.png) [@LenE](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/LenE)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/does-livecd-creator-work-on-a-freshly-installed-rocky-8-xfce-x86-64-latest-distro/10437/4 "2023-06-26T02:46:17Z")
Hi nazunalika: Thank you for your expert clarification !! Len E. ---
**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.rockylinux.org/brian/32/5777_2.png) [@brian](https://forums.rockylinux.org/u/brian)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/does-livecd-creator-work-on-a-freshly-installed-rocky-8-xfce-x86-64-latest-distro/10437/5 "2023-08-25T02:59:45Z")