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Mark Jose wrote: > On Sunday 05 August 2007 13:51, Rob Beard wrote: >> Rob Beard wrote: >>> One thought which springs to mind is creating a custom live Ubuntu CD. >>> There is a package called reconstructor which allows you to make a >>> custom live CD. Although I haven't had a play with it yet it may do the >>> job. It does require the Ubuntu 7.04 Alternative ISO to be available >>> though. >>> >>> Rob >> Just trying to build a live CD now, looks like you need a copy of the >> live CD too. >> >> Rob > > Yep, thats the usual case with these rebuilds. The standard Ubuntu disk is a > live cd, so if you have one handy, you can use that. > I shall be giving it a bash later today - we can compare our results and pool > ideas. It may be interesting to look at perhaps a live LUG cd at some point - > the only problem will be choosing a distro I suspect. As Dave says, there is > a similar thing for Fedora, one for Slackware (Slax) and most other distros > which have a live cd can be rebuilt fairly easily. > I also play around with Linux on a USB key too. I have a Kubuntu live cd > installed onto a 1gb usb key which can save setting changes for me - quite > useful. I set up my wireless wpa stuff on it and it works fine. It even > allows me to add/remove apps if I want to. Thinking about it, perhaps the > same sort of technique may allow the creation of something similar on a cd/rw > disk... (adds idea to backlog of things to do!) > > Mark > Well I've had a play with it, took about 3 attempts as it wouldn't actually create an ISO at the end of it. I ended up using the default name for the ISO and made sure I had plenty of disk space free. The finished custom Live CD seems to work ok. I was able to remove things like OpenOffice, Evolution and other stuff which I figured wouldn't be required for a recovery CD. Now if I could only work out how to remove menu items for the things I have manually deleted, and add icons to the desktop I would be more than happy :-) I think I'll leave that for another day. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html