"Also what script does fedora run to install fedora based on the recorded selection in the file that does partioning, formating and so on.
Is it possible to alter that script?"
I have never tried to change the installer script. Instead what I usually do is do the partitioning and formatting by hand before I do the install. Then I tell the installer to just accept the existing partitions and file systems. I use fdisk to partition. I use mkfs to create file systems. If you don't have a working Linux system to work from you can boot the Fedora install CD and select rescue mode. This will give you a command line that you can use to do the partitioning and create file systems.
Here are the fdisk man pages:
http://www.rt.com/man/fdisk.8.html
Here are the mkfs man pages:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/lab/labman/lookup-man.cgi?mkfs(8)
"Just wondering where, in which file does fedora record all the selections and uses it for the installation after we complete selecting all the options?"
I think that it saves these in a temporary disk file which is deleted at the end of the install. It has been 6 or 8 months since I last did a Fedora install and I don't remember the name of the file. All of the packages that Fedora installs are permanently recorded in the rpm data base. After you finish the install you can get a list of installed packages with:
rpm -qa | less
"Is it possible to alter that script? "
The scripts are somewhere on the first install CD. You could copy the first install CD to disk, change the scripts, and burn a new first install CD.
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