Custom kickstart/spins initial help

[Pedro Silva]

Hi all!

I've been playing with livecd tools since f8 and I'm really enjoying all
the stuff that it allows me to do. I use it mostly to build custom live
cds, dvds and usb sticks. I just pick a stock kickstart file that comes
with fedora, add some repos, change locale/keyboard/timezone and
increase the list of packages. Works great! Great way to test rawhide
too.

Recently, I built a kickstart file that creates a livecd that allows me
to use livecd tools. I can boot any machine with this livecd and start
building more images using livecd tools. Hint: If you are trying to use
network storage with livecd tools, forget smb/cifs shares, go for nfs.
My livecd-creator process was crashing hard when I used smb/cifs shares
for --cache and --tmpdir options in livecd-creator. When I switched to
nfs, everything worked ok.

I've also created a fedora account because I would like to contribute to
the livecd/dvd project. I've also uploaded the necessary ssh/pgp keys.
I never used git before, although I know what it is.

I joined this mailing list yesterday and I already saw something I would
like to do. Regarding the email about a Brazilian localized spin of
Fedora, I would like to do the same but for a Portuguese spin.

Can anyone give some initial tips to help me contribute?

Regards,

-- 
Pedro Silva

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

Pedro Silva wrote:
>  Hi all!
>  
>  I've been playing with livecd tools since f8 and I'm really enjoying all
>  the stuff that it allows me to do. I use it mostly to build custom live
>  cds, dvds and usb sticks. I just pick a stock kickstart file that comes
>  with fedora, add some repos, change locale/keyboard/timezone and
>  increase the list of packages. Works great! Great way to test rawhide
>  too.
>  
>  Recently, I built a kickstart file that creates a livecd that allows me
>  to use livecd tools. I can boot any machine with this livecd and start
>  building more images using livecd tools. Hint: If you are trying to use
>  network storage with livecd tools, forget smb/cifs shares, go for nfs.
>  My livecd-creator process was crashing hard when I used smb/cifs shares
>  for --cache and --tmpdir options in livecd-creator. When I switched to
>  nfs, everything worked ok.
>  
>  I've also created a fedora account because I would like to contribute to
>  the livecd/dvd project. I've also uploaded the necessary ssh/pgp keys.
>  I never used git before, although I know what it is.
>  
>  I joined this mailing list yesterday and I already saw something I would
>  like to do. Regarding the email about a Brazilian localized spin of
>  Fedora, I would like to do the same but for a Portuguese spin.
>  
>  Can anyone give some initial tips to help me contribute?
>   
Hi Pedro,

Welcome to the club ;-) I'd love to see another localized spin as I'm 
still missing a few hundred different languages ;-)

If you read the article 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Spins/KickstartPool about what it is 
we're trying to do, and how we try to make it as easy as possible to 
make spins localized, maybe getting a Portuguese Spin of your liking 
only takes a couple of minutes ;-) You can submit the result to me for a 
little check-up and then I can submit it to the kickstart pool.

Let me know what you think and whether you need any help. Have fun!

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip

[Pedro Silva]

Ter, 2008-05-27 às 09:25 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen escreveu:
>  Pedro Silva wrote:
>  > Hi all!
>  > 
>  > I've been playing with livecd tools since f8 and I'm really enjoying all
>  > the stuff that it allows me to do. I use it mostly to build custom live
>  > cds, dvds and usb sticks. I just pick a stock kickstart file that comes
>  > with fedora, add some repos, change locale/keyboard/timezone and
>  > increase the list of packages. Works great! Great way to test rawhide
>  > too.
>  > 
>  > Recently, I built a kickstart file that creates a livecd that allows me
>  > to use livecd tools. I can boot any machine with this livecd and start
>  > building more images using livecd tools. Hint: If you are trying to use
>  > network storage with livecd tools, forget smb/cifs shares, go for nfs.
>  > My livecd-creator process was crashing hard when I used smb/cifs shares
>  > for --cache and --tmpdir options in livecd-creator. When I switched to
>  > nfs, everything worked ok.
>  > 
>  > I've also created a fedora account because I would like to contribute to
>  > the livecd/dvd project. I've also uploaded the necessary ssh/pgp keys.
>  > I never used git before, although I know what it is.
>  > 
>  > I joined this mailing list yesterday and I already saw something I would
>  > like to do. Regarding the email about a Brazilian localized spin of
>  > Fedora, I would like to do the same but for a Portuguese spin.
>  > 
>  > Can anyone give some initial tips to help me contribute?
>  > 
>  
>  Hi Pedro,
>  
>  Welcome to the club ;-) I'd love to see another localized spin as I'm 
>  still missing a few hundred different languages ;-)
>  
>  If you read the article 
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Spins/KickstartPool about what it is 
>  we're trying to do, and how we try to make it as easy as possible to 
>  make spins localized, maybe getting a Portuguese Spin of your liking 
>  only takes a couple of minutes ;-) You can submit the result to me for a 
>  little check-up and then I can submit it to the kickstart pool.
>  
>  Let me know what you think and whether you need any help. Have fun!
>  
>  Kind regards,
>  
>  Jeroen van Meeuwen
>  -kanarip
>  
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Thanks for the reply!

I've just downloaded the latest .tar.gz from
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git and made a .ks
for pt_PT. I used the nl_NL has an example and changed the settings
accordingly. I haven't tested it yet but since there were few changes,
unless there is a typo, it should work.

Tell me if it needs more changes.

I don't use "includes" in my .ks files but I can see the advantages.

Thanks

-- 
Pedro Silva