2011/2/27 Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm>: > On 02/22/2011 11:55 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > >> 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 ... > > That worked. After that, I set up a and downloaded a local Ubuntu > repository for natty (all 59GB of it), and arranged nightly automated > updates to it, and then pointed debootstrap and apt at it during the ISO > creation process, to reduce my ISO creation times -- I'm now down to 12 > minutes, by cheating the number of language-pack-gnome-* I use... so > maybe 15mins if I undo that English-centric shortcut! > > Today (tonight?) I got the md5sum issue fixed (no need to edit the > m5dsum.txt file by hand at all now for boot.cat, and no hex checksum > strings in the script to stuff into md5sums.txt, either!). > > The resulting i386 ISO "works for me" in qemu as a livecd using > > qemu -cdrom lubuntu-i386-20110227.iso > > The checksum test now passes, and and "Try it without installing" lets > me do basic stuff ... minimal testing only, so far :) > > Next likely steps are: > > (a) Look at why virtualbox is so unhappy with these ISO images > (b) Document the script, and give it back to Julien for comment > (c) Work on 64bit ISOs (will probably need work on livecd-rootfs > image creation, current approach has i386-isms in it I think) > (d) Work on alternate installer ISOs > (e) Work on automatic daily/weekly ISO creation and publication > (f) Relax, maybe? :) > > Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
I had no issue loading the install cd in virtualbox 4.0 however, the install cd might use elements from the VM guest additions for virtualbox and vmware -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Keimpe de Jong (UndiFineD) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
