Anyone know how to remaster the CD with previous images?

Ben Edwards funkytwig at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 10:58:38 UTC 2004


Ta, what hapens when a upgrade or dist-upgrade is  done?

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:49:09 +0100, Colin Watson <cjwatson at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 10:54:31PM +0100, Ben Edwards wrote:
> > mako at canonical.com has said it is OK to use the images from the preview
> > release so if someone could post how to remaster the CD with these
> > previous images could they post it to the list?
> 
> Loop-mount the CD image, and 'cp -a' that to a fresh directory (say,
> 'new').
> 
> Drop the old ubuntu-artwork .deb into pool/main/u/ubuntu-artwork/, and
> remove the new one.
> 
> Edit the ubuntu-artwork paragraph in
> dists/warty/main/binary-i386/Packages to fix up the Version:, Filename:,
> MD5sum:, and Size: lines.
> 
> Update dists/warty/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz to match.
> 
> Update md5sums and sizes of those two files in dists/warty/Release.
> 
> Run this (replacing 'new' with wherever you copied the loop-mounted
> image to):
> 
>   mkisofs -r -V 'Ubuntu 4.10 i386 Bin-1' \
>           -o warty-install-i386-remastered.iso -cache-inodes -J -l \
>           -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
>           -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table new
> 
> Make sure to do a test installation to verify that you got all the above
> steps right; it's easy to miss something even if you've done it before.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com ]
> 
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