Crikey, Leszek, that's an awesome amount of work. If you and julien agree on it, then I would be more than happy to host it.
Thanks, Phill. On 18 October 2010 17:24, Leszek Lesner <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 18.10.2010 15:25, schrieb Julien Lavergne: > > On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 10:59:06 +0200 > Leszek Lesner <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I created a Install CD by simply creating a minimal install CD plus a repo. > Unfortunetly the Installation fails after installing the base system, because > it tries to install a package called lubuntu-desktop^ in the tasksel process > which it cant find. I tried this with the modified tasksel version of yours. > I even checked the modification you made but cant find the error. > > > I'm not sure I made the correct fix for tasksel, it probably needs another > fix somewhere. But I interesting to know how you made the initial CD, because > I only find how doing an iso with squash filesystem, but not with .deb > packages. > > > Ok I see it wasn't quite the right fixes you made as the last line in > lubuntu-desktop from the ubuntu-tasks folder contains > > Packages: task-fields > > This would as far as I understand connect to the ubuntu server and search > for a corresponding task. But there isn't one. > > Packages: list > lubuntu-desktop > > works much better and fixes the error I got before. > > To create the CD I basically took the xubuntu alternate cd. Then I copied > over the whole ISO and put it into one directory(lets call it cd-img). > Replaced the isolinux folder with the fancy isolinux folder from the livecd > with the cool looking logo png and where you can set language with F2 and > with F3 the keymap and so on. > The first thing that I did afterwards was taking the xubuntu.preseed file > that ships with the xubuntu-10.10-alternate-i386.iso and changing it > basically from xubuntu-desktop to lubuntu-desktop(I know there is a > lubuntu.seed file on the live cd but I took the one from the other alternate > cds as they were more entries and I didn't want to mess ups things). Then I > put this preseed file back to my copy of the minimal install cd(so the > cd-img folder) into the preseed folder. > I did change the txt.cfg file in isolinux so that the default option would > boot with the preseed file option of the lubuntu.seed . > Then the little bit more tricky part create a repository. For creating this > repository I know that I need every package that needs to be installed when > installing lubuntu-desktop. Every means every , so also xorg and those other > stuffs. As I had a Minimal Install ISO aswell I simply created a minimal > installed cli only system in virtualbox and apt-get install(ed) > lubuntu-desktop. All the required deb files are stored in /var/cache/apt/. > The only thing to do now is getting those deb files outside the virtual > machine. Then there is a cool package called apt-move which is pretty handy > as it can automatically copy or move those deb files in a repository like > hierarchical folder view. So it will create automatically the structure of a > repository that you need, by putting in lubuntu-desktop for example in a > pool/l/lubuntu-meta/lubuntu-desktop_xXX-i386.deb file/folder structure. By > default this repository structure will be put into /mirrors/debian so you > need root right to run apt-move. But I guess the default folder is > changeable I just was to lazy to read the manpage ;) > Then we copy over the pool directory to the cd-img folder. Again me as > being lazy I didn't overwrite all the packages that where already in the > xubuntu pool directory (they can be deleted later I guess or you can delete > the whole pool directory with the exception of the udeb files. So 'find . > -name "*.udeb"' and copy over all udeb files as they are necessary for the > installer). Then we have the pool directory almost ready. I had to repackage > the ubuntu-keyring package as I don't have the private key to sign the cd > and the new repository with official ubuntu keyring. So I downloaded the > keyring and added my own private key to it. This step is really important > because otherwise the installer won't install if the repo isn't signed. So I > repackaged this package and put it into the pool structure unter > u/ubuntu-keyring I think it was. > That should be all for the pool directory. Basically we need the Release > and Packages.gz file for the repository now and sign it. > So I created a release.conf file ( storing the basic info like distro name > , codename and main + universe repos) and a config file you can see here to > get an Idea how it works: > http://pastebin.ca/1965874 > This is basically the file that will scan the pool files and create the > Packages.gz for each repo (means main and universe). > As you can see here you need also some override files that you can get from > here: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/indices > As the above config file will only create a package listing for debs I > created also a config which scans all the udebs. > Here is the config: http://pastebin.ca/1965876 > As you can see I basically only replaced the deb with udeb :) > Now we have all the config files lets build the packages and release files > with: > > apt-ftparchive -c /path/to/release.conf generate > ../apt-ftparchive/apt-ftparchive-deb.conf > apt-ftparchive -c /path/to/release.conf generate > ../apt-ftparchive/apt-ftparchive-udeb.conf > apt-ftparchive -c /path/to/release.conf release path/to/cd-img/dists/maverick > > path/to/cd-img/dists/maverick/Release > gpg --default-key "YOURKEYID" --output > path/to/cd-img/dists/maverick/Release.gpg -ba path/to/dists/maverick/Release > #This will sign the Releasefile > > > Then you can simply update the md5sums.txt : > > find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > md5sum.txt > > And this is basically all. Of course you can edit .info directory and the > files in there to change them so that the CD Label will change to Lubuntu > .... rather then Xubuntu. Rebuild the ISO with mkisofs and you have it ready > the Lubuntu Alternate Install CD :) > I can also upload my version of the image somewhere so you don't need to do > everything by hand ;) > > Hope that answers you questions. I also didn't found a documentation which > explains or does this building of the alternate cd easier. > > Regards, > Leszek >
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