Developing custom Ubuntu live system

[Amichay P. K.]

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From: "Amichay P. K." <am1chay.p.k �� gmail.com>
Date: Feb 17, 2013 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Developing custom Ubuntu live system
To: "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux-il �� g.jct.ac.il>

>From my attempts so far, the ISO is ending up about 1.5-2 GB. This is great
size for live DVD or USB, and contains many useful features without needing
to give up on something. The size issue concerns me the least at this point.
At the moment, my problem is building the system wisely in a manual way.
What do you think would be the best way to do it?
On Feb 17, 2013 4:34 PM, "E.S. Rosenberg" <esr+linux-il �� g.jct.ac.il> wrote:

> Unless you are not limited by the size of the CD (which your insistence on
> an ISO seems to suggest) you will not be able to keep a vanilla ubuntu disc
> anyhow since it already requieres slight overburn so if you want to add
> even more you are either looking at DVDs or at removing other programs, and
> once you're doing that going from scratch may very well end up cleaner....
>
>
> 2013/2/17 Amichay P. K. <am1chay.p.k �� gmail.com>
>
>> I am planning to maintain the system and maybe even make it public.
>> There is no problem with building it from scratch, it's just very
>> inefficient to reinvent the wheel... why not using existing installed
>> system? Is there any benefits that I didn't notice?
>>  On Feb 17, 2013 12:09 PM, "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir �� cohens.org.il> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:45:58AM +0200, Amichay P. K. wrote:
>>> > On Feb 17, 2013 10:54 AM, "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir �� cohens.org.il>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I don't want to build Ubuntu from scratch - I want to keep most of
>>> Ubuntu
>>> > programs and drivers as it is, I would mostly add features.
>>>
>>> What's the problem with building it from scratch? That's the same
>>> procedure used by the builders of the image you use.
>>>
>>> One way or the other you have to go through the time and memory
>>> consuming part of recreating the compressed filesystem image.
>>>
>>> Is this a one-shot thing or something you want to maintain?
>>>
>>> > If I will change installed system on runtime, how would I be able to
>>> save
>>> > all of the system changes manually?
>>>
>>> > > * Custom system at run time, copy over your changes, and rebuild (for
>>> > >   changes of the user: place them under /etc/skel).
>>>
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