{"id":2228,"date":"2010-10-05T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evanscomputers.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2010-10-05T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:34:14","slug":"howto-create-a-custom-spin-of-fedora-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/howto-create-a-custom-spin-of-fedora-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Howto: create a custom spin of Fedora 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the documentation I read on the World Wide Web suggests using revisor to create a custom Spin of Fedora.   I find that revisor is not well suited to my needs.   I use LiveCD Creator.   To install it:<br \/>\n<code>yum install livecd-tools -y<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I suggest you install the fedora-kickstarts and spin-kickstarts packages as well.<br \/>\n<code>yum install  spin-kickstarts* -y<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Another tool I use is liveUSB-Creator.<br \/>\n<code> yum install liveusb-creator -y<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Once you have those installed you can use your favorite text editor to modify the existing Kickstart files to suiit your needs.<br \/>\nThe files are installed by default to the \/usr\/share\/spin-kickstarts\/   directory.  Be sure to save the files as different file names once you have edited them to suit your needs.<br \/>\nI save them as fedora-custom-base.ks and fedora-custom-kde.ks<\/p>\n<p>Once that is completed you can run the liveCD Creator to create the custom spin in the directory you wish to save the .iso image to.<br \/>\n<code>setenforce 0<br \/>\nlivecd-creator<br \/>\n--config=\/usr\/share\/spin-kickstarts\/fedora-custom-kde.ks<br \/>\n--fslabel=F13x64-Custom<\/code><\/p>\n<p>If that command completes successfully, you will have a F13x64-Custom.iso in the directory.  If it does not, the kickstart file has an error.<\/p>\n<p>Next you can use the LiveUSB-Creator tool to burn that custom image to a USB drive.  Be sure to create an overlay when doing so. I use 1024M as my overlay size.<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed article on creating a LiveUSB drive visit the following:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/evanscomputers.com\/?p=2195\">Howto LiveUSB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the documentation I read on the World Wide Web suggests using revisor to create a custom Spin of Fedora. I find that revisor is not well suited to my needs. I use LiveCD Creator. To install it: yum install livecd-tools -y I suggest you install the fedora-kickstarts and spin-kickstarts packages as well. yum&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/05\/howto-create-a-custom-spin-of-fedora-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Howto: create a custom spin of Fedora 13<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,12],"tags":[76,91,111,118,120,158],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-howto-2","category-software","tag-fedora","tag-howto","tag-kickstart","tag-livecd","tag-liveusb","tag-revisor","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evanscomputers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}