[fedora-arm] Customize Fedora 21 ISO

[Brooks Hu]

Robert,

It would be highly appreciated if you can find the notes. Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Brooks

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
wrote:

>
> 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 at 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.
>
>
>
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