On 01/16/2015 12:02 AM, Jon Masters wrote:
On 01/15/2015 10:57 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:34 AM, Brooks Hu <brooks.hu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Dennis.
>>
>> I did following experiment:
>>
>> Mounted ISO onto a local directory, changed to the directory, did nothing,
>> run "createrepo --update .", but I found the files under repodata
changed,
>> including the checksum in filename. Is that expected? I suppose they
>> shouldn't be changed.
>>
>> I am readying the manual of pungi.
>>
>> One more question: do you have any good links about customizing a ISO? I
>> found a few pages, but they seem not to work.
> You can't really customise a Fedora installer iso. You basically have
> two options:
> 1) Regenerate the iso from clean
> 2) Use the existing installer iso but point it to a new
> updated/changed repository.
Depending what you're doing, the latter (2) might really be what you
want. Especially if you use a Kickstart file, there is rarely a need to
actually respin the entire media.
I had to do this years ago with Centos 4 to build an iso that would even
start on a old piece of hardware. It was really painful and Karanbir
was a big help at the time. Doubt if I can find my notes. These days,
as long as I can boot into a netinstal and maybe grab a kickstart file,
do see needing a custom iso. Those are for times when you can't even
get through the boot process.