From savayu ali:
I think the others understood that, what they were asking was why is the live CD not sufficient for your purposes since after the install is done, you can choose to install whatever other packages you need.
I live in a country where a high-speed internet connection is rare. I happen to have one, and burn DVDs for people who don't. I have no experience with other than the desktop spins, but know that the desktop live-cd misses some basic stuff - like OpenOffice. I don't know if that is the case with the Design Spin, but someone is asking a design spin disk. I would like to offer him the complete packadge, without needing to download another gigabit of data - which I know from experience can take days here. I'm assuming that OpenOffice et al aren't in the Live CD Design spin either... Is this a correct assumption?
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters web@bentrein.com wrote:
I live in a country where a high-speed internet connection is rare. I happen to have one, and burn DVDs for people who don't. I have no experience with other than the desktop spins, but know that the desktop live-cd misses some basic stuff - like OpenOffice.
You trimmed out the solution to your problem from my reply :). I'll quote it again,
you can always start from the kickstart files for the spin of your interest and build your own live iso images. You can even include updated packages in that image.
To help you along this goal, this[1] wiki page will help. Its rather easy to build a custom live media from kickstart files[2], specially when you are not limited by the size of a CD (since you mention you prefer a DVD over a CD).
GL
[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/ArtTeamProjects/FedoraArtStudio#Kickstart_File [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Fedora_Live_CD http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart
On 01/03/2011 04:05 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
From savayu ali:
I think the others understood that, what they were asking was why is the live CD not sufficient for your purposes since after the install is done, you can choose to install whatever other packages you need.
I live in a country where a high-speed internet connection is rare. I happen to have one, and burn DVDs for people who don't. I have no experience with other than the desktop spins, but know that the desktop live-cd misses some basic stuff - like OpenOffice. I don't know if that is the case with the Design Spin, but someone is asking a design spin disk. I would like to offer him the complete packadge, without needing to download another gigabit of data - which I know from experience can take days here. I'm assuming that OpenOffice et al aren't in the Live CD Design spin either... Is this a correct assumption?
There are 2 methods can solve it:
1. The easiest way is : use the Desktop Live CD and keep the application packages,like Openoffice(you could burn DVDs for them), when you need to reinstall your system or someone ask a design spin disk, just offer him the Live CD and application packages. Then install a new OS through the Live CD, and install applications for your purposes.
2. Customize your Live CD with all of your applications, but it's a big topic.
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Vincent Li
Hello Reolof,
On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 16:05 +0700, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters wrote:
I live in a country where a high-speed internet connection is rare. I happen to have one, and burn DVDs for people who don't. I have no experience with other than the desktop spins, but know that the desktop live-cd misses some basic stuff - like OpenOffice. I don't know if that is the case with the Design Spin, but someone is asking a design spin disk. I would like to offer him the complete packadge, without needing to download another gigabit of data - which I know from experience can take days here. I'm assuming that OpenOffice et al aren't in the Live CD Design spin either... Is this a correct assumption?
Have you looked at service packs[1]? From your mail, looks like you can use this.
regards, Ankur
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