Re: ISO Customization and Generation
On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 05:48:57PM +0000, Powers, Joshua wrote:
> I am curious to learn from other derivatives what customizations to
> ISOs others are making and what tools are used to generate
> ISOs. After a little investigation I see live-build and simple-cdd
> used. Are there others?
April last year, I spent a few days looking at vmdebootstrap, but
discarded it as unmaintained because it needed many local changes
before it would work. It has changed since, and a fight arose which
seems at root to be "not invented here" syndrome. You might take a
new look.
Since most of my customisations could be embedded into new versions of
packages, I ended up writing shell script based on
oem-config-remaster, to decompose an official live CD, apply packages
to the Casper filesystem, and then reassemble it. Uses tmpfs,
loopback, and copy-on-write filesystem (aufs).
At the moment it is specific to Ubuntu CD images, but could probably
be adapted to Debian CD images.
http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/quozl/olpc-ubuntu-sugar-builder.git/tree/mkus-iso
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James Cameron
http://quozl.netrek.org/
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