Customised Fedora DVD using new Kernel
Phil Meyer
pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Thu Mar 1 18:58:00 UTC 2007
phil prentice wrote:
> Hi
>
> For a number of reasons we are trying to build our own customised
> dvd (based on Fedora) using the latest kernel (2.6.20). Currently we
> are running with
> Fedora 3. I know this is very old, and it is our intention to upgrade to a
> newer release in the near future. Unfortunately, for various reasons we
> are
> being forced to run with Fedora 3 a little longer. For future reference we
> would very much like the ability to personalize our own Fedora distro to
> take account
> for example of the ever changing hardware requirements and special
> software requirements.
>
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You are a candidate for pungi.
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/pungi
FC6 and F7 have pungi in extras. The pungi tools are new and are
dependant upon newer versions of supporting tools to roll a new distro.
So, you could set up a laptop or developer system with the latest F7 and
follow pungi. From that system you could roll a custom distro of FC6 or F7.
After manipulating your custom comps.xml and fixing yum references to
use local or remote fast repositories ( we put home grown packages in
our own repository, and mirror the major repositories) you simply run
pungi and a new distro is born!
Test, re-roll, test, etc.
I can usually make and test changes to a test server configuration in
about an hour.
Using pungi also gives you a fairly easy method of adding your own
custom kickstart files to your CD/DVD image.
Check it out!
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