how to make his own install-cd

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:43:30PM +0200, Julien Motch wrote:

> A computer dealer that I know would like to install ubuntu aside windows
> on the computers he sells. but he needs a kind of ghost which could
> addapt by its own to the specific computer components (video-card,
> sound-card etc ..).
> 
> So I am looking for good documentation about the ubuntu process
> installation and especially how does the package configuration
> (dpkg-reconfigure) work. 
> 
> In fact, he wants one ghost by model (for him, one model = one
> motherboard) but you could have different video card or sound-card on
> the computer and pre-installed version of ubuntu should be able to
> detect the changes and re-configure itself.

It sounds like what he wants is the "OEM installer" feature that we will be
implementing in Breezy for Ubuntu 5.10:

http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/OEMInstaller

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 - mdz