Live Spins

[R A Jon Hamelin]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">R A Jon 
> Hamelin wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>>
>> So once again I will try to inquire if the spin is available as a 
>> straight download and if so, could I be pointed in the right 
>> direction. I presently use OpenSolaris Developer Edition and would be 
>> very interested in comparing it to the Fedora Developer Spin.
> 
> The short answer is that is the custom spins (games, electronics lab and 
> developer for Fedora 8) are torrent only and not available via http/ftp 
> since volunteer mirrors have only finite amount of space.
> 
> Having said that I know that there is atleast one http mirror that 
> showed up for the games spin so there might be similar mirrors for the 
> developer spin but I am not aware of any.
> 
> There is also another venue. Whatever is available in the developer spin 
> is available in the Fedora repository and the kickstart files used to 
> generate the spins is available at /usr/share/livecd-tools so it is 
> possible for you to rebuild the spin locally by running livecd-creator 
> against the kickstart file possibly modifying it to point to a local 
> mirror instead. If you have any questions on the process, let me know.
> 
> Rahul
> 
> 
> </div>

Thanks Rahul. I've been meaning to give the livecd-creator a spin so I 
guess this is my opportunity.

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R A Jon Hamelin
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