[Fedora-livecd-list] Revival of this list: Fedora Live DVD?

[Tom Lisjac]

On 6/13/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005, Chip Turner wrote:

> True enough.  One of my goals, though, is to have something that the
> Fedora Marketing project can burn and ship all over the world -- a
> complete "this is Fedora, baby, one DVD, put it in and watch 'er rip."

This would involve a tedious but straightforward mastering process
that could probably be done in a few days by an individual using
existing tools. Unfortunately I don't see the utility of the DVD
format when so many systems aren't equipped with them.  Compression
can pack a standard CD with most of the killer apps that Linux has to
offer... and if the plan is to ship these around the world, they're
going to encounter a lot of older hardware that won't know what a DVD
is.

> > What would be cooler is if you could create them on the fly from a
> > given package set; basically take a kickstart... but, if someone
> > downloads the original DVDs or
> > CDs, they should be able to just make their own.

This is the project I'm interested in working on. A graphical tool to
do this doesn't exist yet.

> The question now is, "how do we get our hands dirty"?

Focusing on a specific goal would be a good start.

Media size and type are just parameters. A challenge worthy of this
list would be creating a tool that makes package selection,
customization and image building easy. For me, the basic requirement
is gui based system that will create a variety of selectable OS image
types from a pile of binary RPMs.  In this context, business card
CD's, UML images, DVD's, USB stick bootables, hd installs, etc are
just radio buttons on a tabbed panel. Roger Binn's UMLBuilder with
individual package and media type selection is pretty close:

http://umlbuilder.sourceforge.net/

So at this point, we have two different projects on the table. One is
to build a FedoraMax DVD... the other is to build a "builder". Picking
the one that the people on this list are interested in would probably
be the best way to get started.

-Tom