Hello all,
I have also worked on creating Fedora 8 and 9 local language distribution using kickstart files.I used them with Fedora DVD only, cause i was told that we don't have option of installing system using liveCD(pardon me if i am wrong,will try to confirm it on my personal account asap), and i was targeting installable media. I posted here earlier too related to problems i faced with kickstrat files and other things. But in the end i was successful in providing minimal features which were installed by default. I was targetting all the Indian languages available irrespective of there effort and percentage of translation.(Hindi, bengali, assamese, tamil, telgu, oriya, punjabi, malyalam, gujrati, marathi)
Here is the list of packages i was targeting:
- Gnome desktop environment. - OpenOffice. - Scribus. - GIMP. - scim with local language support(. - mozilla-firefox. - pidgin.
Please don't take this list of packages as point of discussion, it was just my personal prefrence. So in case we can install using liveCD, and can have these packages in CD, i would be happy to volunteer for helping you out. As far as customization is concerned, i have used revisor, and am comfortable with kickstart files. I have never tried to create LiveCD's. Else will try to fit kickstart file in normal DVD's only and let you know of final status. In case you have some plan or suggestion's let me know. I am also available with nick 'baali' on #fedora-india channel.
Regards Shantanu Choudhary
shantanu choudhary wrote:
Hello all,
I have also worked on creating Fedora 8 and 9 local language distribution using kickstart files.I used them with Fedora DVD only, cause i was told that we don't have option of installing system using liveCD(pardon me if i am wrong,will try to confirm it on my personal account asap), and i was targeting installable media.
Live CD have been installable to hard disk from Fedora 7 onwards. Should be quite clear from
Here is the list of packages i was targeting:
* Gnome desktop environment. * OpenOffice. * Scribus. * GIMP. * scim with local language support(. * mozilla-firefox. * pidgin.Please don't take this list of packages as point of discussion, it was just my personal prefrence. So in case we can install using liveCD, and can have these packages in CD, i would be happy to volunteer for helping you out.
Sure.
The only question is managing the locales and the package set within the live cd size. It approximately holds about 2 GB of content, compressed. If you fit the above + any one locale into a live cd, the others should be doable with minimal changes.
You need a Fedora 10 system as host with SELinux in permissive mode.
As far as customization is concerned, i have used revisor, and
am comfortable with kickstart files. I have never tried to create LiveCD's. Else will try to fit kickstart file in normal DVD's only and let you know of final status. In case you have some plan or suggestion's let me know. I am also available with nick 'baali' on #fedora-india channel.
We had a chat on IRC as well. This is just a followup so folks here are aware.
Rahul
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
The only question is managing the locales and the package set within the live cd size. It approximately holds about 2 GB of content, compressed. If you fit the above + any one locale into a live cd, the others should be doable with minimal changes.
Where are these spins being hosted ?
Hi,
Beyond Live CDs where do we get info on remastering Fedora itself?
Beyond packaging what tools are involved in it?
Is it documented?
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Sri Ramadoss M
Hello,
Beyond Live CDs where do we get info on remastering Fedora itself?
I think you can use revisor to this, and is fairly well documented, and also easy to use, i think once you start using it, you can find your way very easily.
Beyond packaging what tools are involved in it?
you can get more information at http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/.
** cheers, Shantanu Choudhary Sarai CSDS
Sri Ramadoss M wrote:
Hi,
Beyond Live CDs where do we get info on remastering Fedora itself?
Beyond packaging what tools are involved in it?
Is it documented?
livecd-creator for live media, pungi for regular media and revisor as a gui that wraps both livecd-creator and pungi. Documentation is available but perhaps scattered a bit.
http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/05/31/remixing-fedora-7/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom/Creating_Fedora_Remix http://www.montanalinux.org/fedora-remix-howto-screencast.html
If you have specific questions, fedora-livecd list and fedora-spins list is quite helpful as well.
Rahul
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