[Fedora-livecd-list] Customizing home directory

[Jonathan Roberts]

Thanks for all the help :D - I'll give it a go today...

Jon

On 03/03/07, Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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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