custom livecd

[Bryan Quigley]

I'm not sure where is better, but I can answer a couple of the questions.

1+2 - Add items to /etc/skel - gets copied as the hope folder for new users
(including live)
3+4 - I am currently using UCK (Ubuntu customization kit) but reconstructor
is good too (they automate a lot of the basic stuff). You want to make sure
to delete the old kernel.  And also you can remove translations (depending
on your app).  Just going through the default menus should tell you what you
can remove, I remove evolution, ekiga, mono*, pulseaudio.  GIMP is big too,
etc.
5+6 - sorry can't help ya there.


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Carl Karsten <carl at personnelware.com>wrote:

> Not sure this is the best place to post this, so if someone knows
> better, tell me where to go.
>
> I have followed:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization
> and was able to remove openoffice, add my PPA, install some apps and
> make a CD that works.  yay.
>
> Now I want to do some more things:
>
> 1) add a shortcut to gnome-terminal to the launcher panel
> 2) add a shortcut to my app on the desktop.
> 3) apt-get dist-upgrade  - seems like a good idea, but on the
> unaltered  ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso it adds 150mb to the .iso,
> even after apt-get clean.
> 4) there are a bunch more apps I want to add, but there isn't room
> even without the dist-upgrade and removing OpenOffice.  I am hoping
> there are some things I can remove to free up a big chunk.  like I
> don't need the installer, but guessing that isn't much of a chunk.
> don't need docs, don't need printer drivers... wondering how I can see
> what takes up what space.  I know this isn't that simple, just
> wondering what my options are.
>
> 5) When an external disk is plugged in that has some sort of label, it
> gets mounted under /media/label, not /media/disk. I would like a link
> to the last disk plugged in, something like /media/lastdisk so that I
> can always write to that pathname: /media/lastdisk/Videos/foo.dv
>
> 6) boot options to pick between master and slave:
>
> default live
> label live
>  menu label DVswitch (alone or master) on Ubuntu - no change to your
> computer
>  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
>  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
> initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash  --
>
> label live-slave
>  menu label DVswitch slave (no GUI)
>  kernel /casper/vmlinuz
>  append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper
> initrd=/casper/initrd.gz text  --
>
> and some zeroconf magic or something so that each box gets a unique IP
> and hostname=master/slave.  extra credit for
> master/slave1/slave2/slaveN... but I can live without multiple slave
> boxes.
>
> I have some scripts to expand iso, edit, compress back to iso:
> http://github.com/CarlFK/DVswitchLiveCD/tree/master
>
> and some notes, which are basically this email:
> http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/wiki/livecd
>
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