[Fedora-spins] Help creating a spin

Jonathan Roberts jonrob at fedoraproject.org
Fri Aug 1 22:30:18 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 00:29 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Fedora Project)
wrote:
> Bryan Kearney wrote:
> > I did a similar thing, used the livecd tools to provide a demo desktop 
> > environment. The basic process which I used was:
> > 
> > 1) Use the existing live-* tools to build the ISO or USB.
> > 2) Log in, and set up the desktop how you like it.
> > 3) Copy out the necessary files from the home directory (.nautilus, 
> > Desktop, and .gconf I think)
> > 4) Rebuild (1) but add %post section to coy in the files from (3)
> > 
> 
> He could just create a new user on his system and use that profile to be 
> copied onto the live disk during the first compose using the copy_dir 
> setting available in Revisor. We're looking for someone willing to test 
> the now conceptual integration with Sabayon.

This sounds perfect :) How would I get the iso to build with the files
in the root directory of the CD though? Or would I have to rebuild the
ISO myself with mkisofs?

What do you need testing with Sabayon?

Jon




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