Upgrading kernel in ISO images

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Jan 26 16:24:10 UTC 2005


Deron Meranda wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:12:54 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>>- the ISO images on the Fedora web site are upgraded with new kernel versions

I didn't write that; please attribute quotes properly.

> No.  Official ISOs are only rebuilt on new releases.
> 
> 
>>>- how could I rebuild an Fedora installer with a newer kernel version ?
> 
> 
> I've often wondered about this myself.
> 
> Does anyone have information on HOW Fedora actually builds their
> ISO images. They must have some tools, makefiles, or something
> that does this.  What decides which RPMs go on which discs, and
> so on.  But I've never come across anything which talks about this
> process.  Is there any source code anyplace?  If the process of building
> ISOs even "open"?

See the anaconda Wiki for full details of the installer, how to build 
ISOs etc.:
http://rau.homedns.org/twiki/bin/view/Anaconda/AnacondaDocumentationProject

Paul.




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