Making a games spin?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 09:17:04 +0100,
  Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl> wrote:
> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>> I saw there were some problems making a games spin, but I wasn't sure
>> what the underlying cause was. If I want to make a live games DVD using
>> livecd-creator and the games kickstart file (possibly with some changes)
>> should I expect problems?
>>
>
> Not really, the resulting iso might be to large in which case you need to 
> drop some packages, or you might run out of "disk" space, in which case 
> you need to change the size of the / fs in the .ks file.

Yes it was, but just barely and checking on the smallest of the possible
12cm DVD maximum sizes suggests that I can make the filesystem enough
larger for it to fit. I am testing 8800 now. Previously it was 8000.
And it looks like the max is 4700000000/1024/512 = 8964.
I'll see if the build has worked shortly, but won't be able to test the
resulting iso until tonight.

> If you're planning on doing this anyways it would be great if you could 
> perhaps become the maintainer of an official Fedora Games spin?

We'll see. In principle I am willing to do it, but I want to make sure
I am qualified. If I actually get it to work, I'll ask about details.
I have access to i386 and x86_64 systems for doing builds. If we need
both. Though I think for a livedvd i386 is probably good enough for the
PC world. I don't have access to other architectures.

I already noticed the kickstart file still refers to starfighter which
seems to have been dropped. I'll file a bug on that after I double
check things.

> We would really like to see such a spin, but are short on manpower to 
> realize it. (even though it should not be too much work).

Yeah, I saw the notes about that, but what worried me wasn't that I didn't
fully grok what they were talking about. If it was just that it needed
about 4.1 GB instead of 4GB, then I'm probably OK, because I am seeing
and attempting to fix that.