[Fedora-livecd-list] Customizing home directory

[Jeremy Katz]

On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 11:47 -0600, Chris Negus wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 15:40 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
> > I'm working on a project where I want to customize the content of the
> > home directory - i.e. put some media files in to it. The project I'm
> > working on is to create a DVD for promoting Free Culture (i.e. Free
> > Software, Creative Commons, Public Domain etc): as part of it I plan
> > to include a live cd on the disc and I would love to use Fedora for
> > this. As it stands I think I'll probably end up using Knoppix because
> > there's a very straight forward method to stick some files on to the
> > desktop - any help would be hugely appreciated!
> 
> This is a good question. The project should come up with a recommended
> way to add or change stuff that isn't part of an rpm when creating a
> live CD.
> 
> At Fudcon, David suggested that he might add an option to livecd-creator
> to open a shell to the chroot environment after the software is
> installed and before it's made into an ISO. Is that option available?
> Would you guys suggest adding data using post install scripts in a
> kickstart file instead?

It depends on if you're doing something that's one shot or not.  It's
not hard to do dropping into a shell, but it's going to leave you with a
live CD that you have to manually reproduce everytime.  Using an actual
post script will be able to be reproduced at will (and changed, etc)
over time

Jeremy