[Sugar-devel] How big might a full install of Fedora Sugar be?

[David Farning]

2009/7/31 Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) <bochecha at fedoraproject.org>:
>> What about doing a F11 GNOME install to a large USB drive, yum installing
>> Sugar stuff, removing the unwanted bits, resizing the partitions to
>> desirable size, and then dd ing that to a desirable USB stick (marked
>> bootable) as a master img?
>
> And do that process again each time you want to release an updated image ?
>
> Use a kickstart file, create the master image with pungi, then let it
> install itself automatically on the USB sticks.
>
> That's exactly what Sebastian has been doing with SoaS, except he
> created live images when you want installed systems.

For the non-fedora people....

A kickstart file is a list of packages which you want to install.  You
first create the kickstart file using a tool called pungi.  Then you
put the kickstart file on your install DVD.  So, whenever you do an
install with that dvd you get the package set defined in the kickstart
file.

This is how the xs image is create.  The xs team takes a few standard
rpm files and modify them to meet the usecases intended for the xs and
stick those file in a xs repo.  Then they create a kickstart file
listing the files that want to install.  To save space they really
limit the required packages.  Then they tell kickstart to first in the
xs repo and second in standard fedora repo for packages packages.

There is a step of creating a special package to run post install
configure scripts. But don't think too hard about that.... it is
enough to make your head explode.

So there is no 'set' size for an install

hope that helps

david



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