Re: F14 Design Spin

[Roelof 'Ben' Kusters]

 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?

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[Ankur Sinha]

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

[1]http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#service-pack

F14 Design Spin

[Vincent Li]

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

F14 Design Spin

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Roelof 'Ben' Kusters <web(a)bentrein.com&gt;
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#Kic...
[2] <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Fedora_Live_CD>
     <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart>

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