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  • 24-02-2009 7:08pm
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    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭


    I have installed and tweaked an Ubuntu image that I now need to get a bootable ISO image of, any ideas how or what I can use to make this easy (bear in mind that I am a windows man and Linux Illiterate)?

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    Capt'n Midnight
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    Be very difficult since the ubuntu live cd is compressed

    a better approach might be to create a ubuntu startup disk on a 1GB USB , you would probably have to burn the result to DVD since it would be bigger than 700MB

    or have a look the Knoppix forums on custimizing too


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    helios12
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    I'm hazey but what about remastersys?


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    An Fear Aniar
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    helios12 wrote: »
    I'm hazey but what about remastersys?

    Google agrees:

    http://www.ubuntugeek.com/creating-custom-ubuntu-live-cd-with-remastersys.html


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    helios12
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    An Fear Aniar wrote: »
    Google agrees:

    http://www.ubuntugeek.com/creating-custom-ubuntu-live-cd-with-remastersys.html


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    Nice, though be warned it seems to be very hit and miss with success rate judging from testimonials at the Ubuntuforums.


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    Amalgam
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    Cheers, I'll try this over the week-end.


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    Amalgam
    Registered Users Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    This works very very well.

    I compiled a state of install I was happy with on an: Acer Aspire WLMi 5001

    I had the image running on an: HP Pavilion dv9910us and a desktop Barton 2500

    I went with the following: sudo remastersys backup

    Just over an hour between the burning and trying. Just to note, there's an extra options menu (Casper?) at the start now, giving you options to boot live and various utilities, this is a text only menu, this then goes into the Ubuntu classic menu, followed by.. the User prompt log in window, which I was not expecting.

    As a user, 'mistersnrub', everything was as it was on the compile machine. Including all the contents of the Home folder. The HP laptop had 3GB of memory, the amount of space left in the Home folder seems to suggest it uses memory. I had 1.4GB left.

    The only downside was a low resolution on the HP laptop, which used an nVidia card, I was given only 800x600 as a choice. But the screen looked fine otherwise.

    I had the options of higher resolutions on the Barton and Acer.

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    Remember to use the 'clean' command on the compile machine, *after* burning your .iso.

    sudo remastersys clean

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    Plenty of possibilities with this.


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    An Fear Aniar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,377 ✭✭✭An Fear Aniar


    Yep, I tried remastersys and combined with Unetbootin it works very nicely indeed.:)


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