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Per this article, a person with a Fedora installation can, using a few (somewhat) easy steps create an up-to-date ISO image.
Why would one want to do this?
A couple reasons come to mind. (at least for me)
First, make sure you have administrator access to a computer which has an installation of Fedora 20 or newer. At the time of writing, the latest release is Fedora 21.
What if I want to create an ISO with one of the Fedora Spins?
What if I don't have have access to a machine running Fedora?
Why would one want to do this?
A couple reasons come to mind. (at least for me)
- Be more secure vs. using an official ISO (they tend to contain out-of-date packages)
- Customization: (with the appropriate knowledge) you can customize the live image to your liking
First, make sure you have administrator access to a computer which has an installation of Fedora 20 or newer. At the time of writing, the latest release is Fedora 21.
- Install the livecd-tools and spin-kickstarts packages.
Code:
sudo yum install livecd-tools spin-kickstarts
- Run this command to create the live image.
Code:livecd-creator --verbose \ --config=/usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-live-workstation.ks \ --fslabel=Fedora-LiveCD \ --cache=/var/cache/live
- Burn the LiveCD to a DVD, flash drive, etc.
What if I want to create an ISO with one of the Fedora Spins?
- Perform step 1 if you haven't already.
- Perform an ls command in the /usr/share/spin-kickstarts/ directory.
Code:ls /usr/share/spin-kickstarts
- We will use the fedora-live-mate_compiz configuration in this example.
- We will use a modified version of the command used in step 2 above:
Code:livecd-creator --verbose \ --config=/usr/share/spin-kickstarts/fedora-live-mate_compiz.ks \ --fslabel=Fedora-LiveCD \ --cache=/var/cache/live
- Perform step 3.
What if I don't have have access to a machine running Fedora?
Download Fedora at: getfedora.org