Am Mittwoch 23 Februar 2011, um 08:55:24 schrieb Jonathan Marsden: > On 02/22/2011 09:47 PM, PYROcomp wrote: > > We are interested in giving a hand with building install ISOs. > > Is there a source for information on this process? > > Could you help us out in getting started? > > > > You do an EXCELLENT job and we know that opensource can be a very > > time demanding hobby thus we wanna help out! > > I have a HOWTO from Julien (gilir) that he uses to create the official > Lubuntu ISOs. > > I am in the process of (slowly and carefully) converting it into a > script (actually a couple of scripts, at the moment; I might merge them > back into one later) that can run automatically with no human input... > if that works 100%, then using it would be one way to get others involved. > > However, so far I've been asked not to redistribute the HOWTO (which is > sort of almost a script) -- that's Julien's choice. > > If I get ISOs created that really work correctly, and especially if I > get automated daily or weekly builds going here, does your group have > somewhere I can upload them to, that has appropriate server bandwidth to > host them for others (worldwide) to download? That would be a really > useful thing to have; not needed right now today, but hopefully needed > in a few days time :) > > Incidentally, I hope to build my first "more or less Lubuntu" ISO from > these two scripts, "hands off" except for entering a sudo password, > before I go to bed tonight (it is 23:40 here... so that's not very far > away at all!). No promises, just a statement about where I am in this > process :) > > I also have info on the general idea of creating Ubuntu ISOs using the > official Ubuntu tools and approaches, and once I have the "Julien way" > working, I want to start moving towards the "Ubuntu official" way... but > how long that will take, I don't yet know. > > .... >
Creating a LiveCD (also called Desktop CD) and creating a Install only CD are a different pair of shoes. The LiveCD basically is only a compressed and ready to use Lubuntu System (which is tweaked to run with a live user and so on) . The InstallCD is nothing but the debian-installer (also called text-only installer) plus a repo of packages (basically containing all the lubuntu packages necessary for installing a fresh lubuntu system). I already build both of them so far. The InstallCD was a little bit tricky back then, because the tasksel list needed patching for recognizing and installing the 'lubuntu-desktop' . My guess is that the ubuntu devs are using the live-helper scripts as they are quite good and can generate live and install cds. Back then I simply created a minimal install cd and patched it to use the lubuntu logo in isolinux. Then I also created a mirror containing the packages lubuntu-desktop depends on and repackaged the iso. (some things like the .disk-info/* files needed patching and renaming too) I guess this procedure can be automated with live-helper as you can create some scripts that it will exchange the branding and use a local repo. The same goes for the LiveCDs . The live-helper script way has the advantage of creating a git repo or bazaar repo containing all the configuration files, packagelists and so on for building the iso. So it is easily changeable and changes can be logged. I know the way of creating a script which only does what you want is quite convenient as I am also using my own script to build livecds. (called remaster-kit and that basically does what the names stands for, only remaster live systems which already exists) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
