Upgrading kernel in ISO images

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Thu Jan 27 10:00:39 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 00:24, Paul Howarth wrote:
> Deron Meranda wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:12:54 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> > 
> >>>- the ISO images on the Fedora web site are upgraded with new kernel versions
> 
> I didn't write that; please attribute quotes properly.
> 
> > No.  Official ISOs are only rebuilt on new releases.
> > 
> > 
> >>>- how could I rebuild an Fedora installer with a newer kernel version ?
> > 
> > 
> > I've often wondered about this myself.
> > 
> > Does anyone have information on HOW Fedora actually builds their
> > ISO images. They must have some tools, makefiles, or something
> > that does this.  What decides which RPMs go on which discs, and
> > so on.  But I've never come across anything which talks about this
> > process.  Is there any source code anyplace?  If the process of building
> > ISOs even "open"?
> 
> See the anaconda Wiki for full details of the installer, how to build 
> ISOs etc.:
> http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject


Or you can try Catalyst by Gentoo. It's a system which builds LiveCDs. 

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