On Mon, October 8, 2007 1:12 pm, Derek Smithies wrote: > Hi, > In fact, the easiest approach (in my experience) is to > use xubuntu. > the xubuntu live cd (xubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso) > is 566 megs in size, so it has plenty of room for extra stuff. > > install xubuntu onto a spare partition. > > Run this installed code and make the changes you need, which > will include something like below: > > extend apt/sources.list to include the Romeo unstable code > (this gets you the remastersys package) > > add in the packages you want, > build whatever code you want, > > and then do > sudo remastersys dist > > cp /home/remastersys/customdist.iso to whatever machine and write a CD. > > Apparently, you can test the live cd with > > qemu -cdrom customdist.iso d -m 256 > > but that did not work for me. > Trial and error let me to > qemu -cdrom customdist.iso > but that don't work either. OK, burn CD's, test them, and continue. A bit > slower than qemu, but it works...
You can also use vmware to test, it saves a lot of rebooting and wasted cd's. In fact if I was doing this I would install xubuntu into vmware and then take a snapshot. Then you can go back to the fresh install to make different versions of your custom disk, or while playing. Then use a separate vmware session to test the resulting cd. -- Nick Rout
