ISO generator for LoCo teams

[Stephen Michael Kellat]

Systems permitting I will attempt to be in attendance.  I just had a very early wake-up call as the alarms on all the UPS units just went off.  I wasn't expecting a power grid glitch before starting my Monday proper...

Stephen Michael Kellat 
Member, LoCo Council 
Point of Contact/Leader, Ubuntu Ohio 

On Nov 10, 2014, at 4:01 AM, cm-t arudy <cm-t at ubuntu-fr.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since this topic looks not only 1-LoCo's LoCo problem, I have proposed this meeting at the vUds:
> 
> * http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/meeting/22376/official-iso-with-translation-preloaded-for-loco-uefi-compatible/
> 
> 
> Please feel free to join a chair at the hangout's meeting, I would love to discuss with you about how loco are dealing with this issue.
> 
> Librement
> 
> On lundi 10 novembre 2014 07:25:11 CET, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
>> 2014-11-08 12:46 GMT+02:00 Vincent JOBARD <vinzjobard at gmail.com>:
>>> Let me talk about one of Ubuntu-fr project. For a while we made some
>>> localized iso of Ubuntu for french spoken people. All the live CD is in
>>> french and when you install it it's entirely in french. Firefox links point
>>> to Ubuntu-fr website instead of Ubuntu.com, and we have some package as Dash
>>> Privacy Interface to be OK with the french legislation about privacy.
>>> 
>>> But since UEFI we have some troubles to generate it and it's impacting our
>>> image as a LoCo.
>>> 
>>> I think we're not the only LoCo to have this issue. So maybe it could be a
>>> good think for LoCo (only) to have a studio to personalize an official iso
>>> for localization, and generate it with the same process as the officials
>>> releases are generated.
>> One option AFAIK would be to modify existing ISO, or is it then
>> lacking some of the UEFI magic when it's parsed back together with
>> mkisofs?
>> If you have a test machine, please try out the Finnish Remix and
>> report back if it works:
>> http://torvi.atm.tut.fi/ubuntu-finnish-remix/14.04/ubuntu-14.04-desktop-amd64-finnishremix.iso
>> - that's the easiest way to find out. I'd love to know whether there
>> should be a note that it doesn't boot on all the same hardware as the
>> official one - even if our (Ubuntu Finland) default download is the
>> official .iso.
>> The pseudo-script (really needs copy-pasting sections instead of
>> executing) I've used to create it is at
>> https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-fi-remix
>> -Timo
> 
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> * http://www.reddit.com/r/ubuntuFr
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