[Fedora-livecd-list] Fedora "builder" CD

On 6/13/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chip Turner wrote: > > >True enough. One of my goals, though, is to have something that the >Fedora Marketing project can burn and ship all over the world -- a >complete "this is Fedora, baby, one DVD, put it in and watch 'er rip." > > This would involve a tedious but straightforward mastering process that could probably be done in a few days by an individual using existing tools. Unfortunately I don't see the utility of the DVD format when so many systems aren't equipped with them. Compression can pack a standard CD with most of the killer apps that Linux has to offer... and if the plan is to ship these around the world, they're going to encounter a lot of older hardware that won't know what a DVD is. >>What would be cooler is if you could create them on the fly from a >>given package set; basically take a kickstart... but, if someone >>downloads the original DVDs or >>CDs, they should be able to just make their own. >> >> This is the project I'm interested in working on. A graphical tool to do this doesn't exist yet. >The question now is, "how do we get our hands dirty"? > > Focusing on a specific goal would be a good start. Media size and type are just parameters. A challenge worthy of this list would be creating a tool that makes package selection, customization and image building easy. For me, the basic requirement is gui based system that will create a variety of selectable OS image types from a pile of binary RPMs. In this context, business card CD's, UML images, DVD's, USB stick bootables, hd installs, etc are just radio buttons on a tabbed panel. Roger Binn's UMLBuilder with individual package and media type selection is pretty close: http://umlbuilder.sourceforge.net/ So at this point, we have two different projects on the table. One is to build a FedoraMax DVD... the other is to build a "builder". Picking the one that the people on this list are interested in would probably be the best way to get started. -Tom -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list