Re: [Fedora-electronic-lab] Fedora is being bulky.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:53 AM, Tom varghese wrote: 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... 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... 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 -- Chitlesh GOORAH Fedora Electronic Lab Architect http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/FEL