[ale] custom LIve CD

[Chris Fowler]

I've written some simple scripts that allow me to modify and reauthor an
Ubuntu CD.

http://www.k4fh.com/custom.tar.bz2

1) download 10.04 CD
2) mkdir cd
3) copy -va /media/cdrom cd/
4) mkdir mnt
5) mkdir sys
6) mount -o loop cd/casper/filesystem.squashfs ./mnt
7) cp -va ./mnt/. sys/
8) umount ./mnt
9) umount /media/cdrom

Now you should be able to use the scripts.  I ran update and created an
10.04 LTS CD that had all the updates applied.   The install will allow
you to install specific packages.  build will allow you to recreate the
squashfs and then create a new ISO image.

The Ubuntu CD is tight on space so if you do much you may need to go to
DVD.


On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 09:32 -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> On 08/11/2010 01:24 AM, Drew Brown wrote:
> > Forget about moving to another distro.
> > (I just hate it when people suggest moving to a different distro because
> > they don't know a solution more closely related to the OP request.)
> > 
> > Since you're already using Ubuntu (or Debian) you can use Remastersys. The
> > best thing to come out of the Ubuntu community is Remastersys.
> 
> There is also
> https://reconstructor.org/wiki/reconstructor/
> http://uck.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.cyvoc.net/novoweb/index.html
> 
> and probably more.
> 
> To understand what these programs do, take a look at
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomizationFromScratch
>