On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm curious as to what is the best, or official way to modify a Fedora ISO > image considering that I only want to change the defaults of a few handful > packages, not do any major rebranding or modifications. > > For instance, I'd like a Fedora ISO that includes cups-pdf pre-installed > as the default printer. How would one go about adding such package to the > default LiveCD? > > Let's say also that I want only Firefox and all other packages under > "Internet" removed. > > Just to name two examples... is there a "custom LiveCD creator" ? You can roll your own custom live media with livemedia-creator, the same tool used to build Fedora live images. You can find it in the "lorax" package in Fedora. See its README here for some usage examples: https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/lorax.git/tree/README.livemedia-creator After you've got lorax installed, clone the spin-kickstarts repo: git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/spin-kickstarts.git Then cd to it, and check out the branch for the Fedora version you want to build live media for: cd spin-kickstarts git checkout f18 Start with the kickstart for the desktop of your choice (e.g. fedora-livecd-desktop.ks for GNOME), and then edit the %packages section to contain the packages you want. Note that you can remove packages from the default set by adding them to the %packages section with a minus sign in front of them. See this page for a complete description of kickstart syntax: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart Once you've got your kickstart like you like it, follow the instructions in the README to build your ISO. There's an example of how the author made their own custom XFCE live media in there. If you run into trouble, you'll have to ask the anaconda folks for help. I doubt anyone on this list is qualified to debug issues with this process. Their list is here: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list Keep in mind that they're busy getting anaconda ready for F19, so they might not be able to help right away. There used to be a graphical tool called "revisor" to make this process easier, but it's currently unmaintained and the process for making live media in Fedora has completely changed in the interim so it's useless at the moment. :-( So going at it manually as described above is the only way to go right now. Good luck! -T.C. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
