Install revisor fedora

Bruce Byfield is a computer journalist who writes regularly for NewsForge, Linux. About Us. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. Password recovery. Home News Revisor utility creates custom install images for Fedora. If you are running Fedora 7, that dream is now a reality, thanks to Revisor , a graphical interface for building custom install images for Fedora. Inexperienced users can use its default settings without much knowledge of what is happening behind the scenes, while more expert users can customize each aspect of producing an.

Using Revisor Revisor is not included in a standard installation of Fedora 7. Basic but powerful functionality Revisor shows some signs of haste. Understanding Bluetooth Technology for Linux. All rights reserved. The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses trademarks. This is handy because it will help you to share out those images created with Revisor.

Finally, select from the available list of repositories to use for your respin. The next section configures your KickStart file. A KickStart file is a file that contains all the necessary information for Anaconda. Anaconda is the Fedora system installer. Stick with the default for the file location.

As for advanced options, there are three selectable check boxes:. I will select the first two options for my respin. Once you have made your selections, press the Forward button and Revisor will download all the necessary packages from the repository selected.

Now you are ready to customize what packages will be used for your respin. The package selection window Figure D is very simple to use. Select the category and then select the package you want to include. In your respin, you are not restricted to only that desktop environment. Note : In Figure D, there are only three choices for the desktop. Later on, we'll discuss adding additional repositories so you will have more to chose from. Once you have gone through your package selection, select Forward to be greeted by the review window, as shown in Figure E.

When you select Forward, Revisor will start checking dependencies, as shown in Figure F. Resolving all dependencies can take quite a while, depending upon the size of your respin. During the final phase of the image creation, Revisor will go through a number of steps, including:.

Once the image is created, you will see the congratulations screen Figure G ; now you can finally quit Revisor. It was at this point that I came across my only problem with Revisor. This was not the case. My assumption is that the developers are still working out some of the bugs, because the Revisor GUI did not write the configurations I used in Revisors' configuration file.

There are a number of occasions when you'll want to add applications to your respin that aren't included in the default repositories. In order to add a new repository, you will want to open up the correct. Let's say, for example, you want to add the Livna repository for the i architecture. Aside from Revisor being very young, there are a few pitfalls you might want to know.

I've already mentioned one instance where the ISO images were placed not where they should have been. Another issue is adding repositories. As you can see above, there is no GUI solution for adding extra repositories. If you plan to use a Kickstart configuration use the current screen to enter the appropriate information.

If you elected to create a Live Media distribution, the option is provided to pre-configure settings such as network devices, users, passwords, locale, keyboard type, the X Window System and authentication select the corresponding option in the Advanced Options section.

If you are not using Kickstart simply press the Forward button to continue to the next step of the Fedora re-spin configuration. There will now be a short delay while Revisor loads the appropriate repositories for the selections made on the configuration screen. Once the repositories are loaded, it is time to start selecting the packages to be included in the re-spin:. At this point, simply work your way through the list of categories.

Click on the check box to include the mandatory packages for that category in your distribution. To add optional packages for any category, simply select that category and click on the Optional Packages button.

The resulting dialog will allow you to include any non-mandatory packages you feel you need in your distribution. Once you have made suitable package selections click once again on the Forward button. Revisor will now review your selections and add any packages that need to be added to resolve the dependencies of your chosen packages. Once any dependencies have been resolved a new screen will appear listing the number of packages selected and the size of the images.

Review this information before clicking on the Forward button where the basic configuration settings for the custom distribution need to be configured. These settings include the language, keyboard, timezone and root passowrd which will be used when the distribution is installed and running. Once the basic configuration options have been configured, the next screen provides the option to pass through specific kernel parameters at boot time.

These are typically parameters that are required to meet specific, non-typical requirements such as disabling ACPI support. For most users the default settings are adequate and this step may be skipped. If Live Media is being created and the option to configure advanced settings such as networking and authentication was selected on the Kickstart configuration page, the next step allows network interfaces to be pre-configured into the custom Fedora distribution.

To add a networking device click on the Add Network Device button to display the Network Device Information dialog as illustration in the following figure:. Once a device has been configured, click OK to add the device to the configuration. Repeat this process to add additional network devices as required. Having configured the network devices, the next screen allows authentication settings to be pre-configured.