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This tutorial will show you how to customize and remaster your ubuntu 9.04 jaunty using a jaunty iso file. 1. Create a work directory # mkdir jaunty 2. Create the following directoires # mkdir jaunty/cdrom # mkdir jaunty/tmp # mkdir jaunty/root 3. Mount the jaunty iso image on jaunty/cdrom directory # mount -o loop jaunty.iso jaunty/cdrom 4. Copy everything from the cdrom to jaunty/image directory # cp -r jaunty/cdrom jaunty/image 5. Now the image directory has the content of your cdrom We are going to rebuild filesystem.squashfs under jaunty/image/casper Move the filesystem.squashfs image to jaunty/tmp directory # mv jaunty/image/casper/filesystem.squashfs jaunty/tmp 6. Mount the filesystem.squashfs under jaunty/root direct # mount -o loop jaunty/tmp/filesystem.squashfs jaunty/root 7. Copy the contents of fileystem.squashfs to jaunty/remaster # cp -r jaunty/root jaunty/remaster 8. Copy resolv.conf and sources.list from the host system # cp /etc/resolv.conf jaunty/remaster...

Remastersys Remastersys is a tool that can be used to make ubuntu livecd and also it can make a full system backup including personal data to a live cd or dvd that you can use anywhere and and it can install at any time. It can make your own distributable copy with all the softwares installed in your system (eg:java,flashplayer, codecs, fonts, mysql, apache, php etc) can share with your friends. This will not have any of your personal user data in it. Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list $ deb http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/repository remastersys/ $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install remastersys run remastersys-gui and make your live cd http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/