custom livecd

[Isamar Maia]

I am in almost the same situation of Carl now.

I can see UCK,Remastersys and some web tutorials like
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCDCustomization

I did some tests already and I have the following doubts:

1) To make a Livecd and InstallCD in the same media, customized, is it
possible ?
2) What is the best tool to be used ? I need to customize it the most
as possible.

Using the procedure from
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization,
I am stucked now on this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-installer@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00118.html

Some reason, I cannot run Ubiquity and "text mode" debian-installer is
being used.

What is missing here ?

Isamar







2009/8/15 Bryan Quigley <gquigs at gmail.com>:
> 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
>>
>> --
>> Carl K
>>
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