On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Tom varghese wrote:
Hello there, I feel fedora electronic lab become bulkier as number of programs increases. Is there any way to build the .iso file with favourite programs only and then download online?. This method is used by several other distro such as 'slax'
Hello Tom,
Actually you can build any iso, but not online yet at Fedora. Fedora tends instead to encourage you to build the iso as an official spin and create a community around it.
I'll describe the steps to build a customized iso.
Building a live ISO at fedora is absolutely not difficult at all. I fear this email will be a bit too long :)
Livecds are built from kickstart file. First have a look at FEL's kickstart file for F-13, http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=...
In order to make generation of livecd iso easily and that other spins such as Fedora Education can use FEL spin as a model, FEL kickstart divide the spin into two categories :
* The desktop environment ( line %include fedora-livecd-desktop.ks ) * FEL Collection + Additional packages
If you want your spin to be : * gnome based: use %include fedora-livecd-desktop.ks * kde based : use %include fedora-livecd-kde.ks * xfce based : use %include fedora-livecd-xfce.ks * lxde based : use %include fedora-livecd-lxde.ks
grab them from http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/spin-kickstarts.git?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=...
It's only one line to change in order to opt for a different desktop environment. This is very useful for you since appropriate testing were carried out by their respective communities.
About your customized FEL livecd/livedvd: All FEL applications are available under the yum groupinstall group "electronic-lab" : (line @electronic-lab ) and the extra packages are listed afterwards. This make it easy and less work load for us to maintain and troubleshoot the FEL spin.
In your case remove @electronic-lab from the %package section and add the name of the packages you wish to have. The current list of packages under the FEL umbrella is: http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL/list.html
Choose yours.
I hope I was able to answer you. You can find more details on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo
regards, Chitlesh