[Fedora-livecd-list] Customizing home directory

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

Wow, Chris.  Great advice.  You could write a book about this stuff.  ;-)

--g

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Chris Negus wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 19:02 +0000, Jonathan Roberts wrote:
>> On 02/03/07, Hikaru Amano <kagesenshi.87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is a quick + ugly hack.. it works for me ...
>>>
>>> boot the liveCD .. customize the desktop etc ... then .. scp
>>> /home/<username>/ to another computer ... afterward .. in the config
>>> script, tell the config to copy back the the home folder into place ..
>>
>> Please excuse my ignorance but...how do I tell the config to do this!?
>
> I think he's suggesting that you first make the basic live CD that you
> want. Then boot that CD and customize everything (set you background,
> screen colors, and other desktop preferences). Even add the data files
> you want to the home directory. Then backup all that stuff to another
> computer (or maybe to your local hard disk).
>
> Next, go and build your live CD again, but this time copy your
> saved /home/<username> directory to the chroot environment of your CD.
> You can do that by adding a single cp -ar line to your kickstart
> postinstall section.
>
> It's a little ugly, but it's easy. One thing to look out for is that you
> want to be sure to clear out cache and history files before backing up
> the home directory. For instance, if you were browsing americanidol.com
> (or whatever), anyone who checks the browser history on your live CD
> will know about it. ;)
>
> -- Chris Negus
>
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