building custom ubuntu install/live cd from scratch?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:02:21AM +0100, Jeroen Janssen wrote:

> I was wondering if it is possible to build a custom ubuntu install/live cd
> from scratch. 

Which one?  The procedures are completely different.

> Are the scripts/tools that are used to build the nightly iso files available
> somewhere? 
> 
> I know that there is some instruction on the wiki that uses an existing iso
> file to build upon, but what if I want to have a minimal (very tiny) iso?

You won't want to change anything but /casper/filesystem.cloop.  You are
free to replace that file with any cloop-compressed ext2 filesystem image
you like, created by any means which is convenient for you.  You can use
debootstrap to create a starting point, and chroot into it to make further
changes.

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 - mdz