LinuxQuestions.org - Ubuntu-Mini-Remix-9.10.iso + e17-svn + Script = E'buntu-9.10 !!

OK
I finally got a Xnest session going and trying it out in script form now
The script will run almost automatically

it stops during upgrade to ask about grub default and some server/mail question?
is there a way to have the answers put into script so it doesn't stop?

like on the grub question it asks if (sda) is default grub placement
I hit TAB for "no answer" and then hit exit button and it starts going again
so is there a way to get the script to hit TAB button then ENTER button?

On the mailserver question I hit ^up arrow button to goto "no configuration"
and then ENTER
is there a way to do that thru script too?

Basically, the script runs and installs what you want, installs e17-svn, makes that and installs
then "update-initramfs"
then it recreates the original ubuntu iso, just with your stuff too:)

Here's the current script-

Code:

#!/bin/bash



iso="ubuntu-mini-remix-9.10"



if [ "$UID" -ne "0" ]

then

echo "This script will only work when run by "root"."

exit 1

fi



# not everyone will have squash tools, install them if not found

if [ ! `which unsquashfs` ]

then

aptitude install squashfs-tools

fi



# not everyone will have genisoimage, install it if not found

if [ ! `which mkisofs` ]

then

aptitude install genisoimage

fi



# not everyone will have xnest, install it if not found

if [ ! `which Xnest` ]

then

aptitude install Xnest

fi



START=$(date +%s)



mkdir iso

mount $iso.iso iso/ -o loop



cp -R iso/ image/



echo "Decompressing SquashFS..."

cp iso/casper/filesystem.squashfs ./

unsquashfs filesystem.squashfs



echo "Setting up Live CD chroot..."

cp /etc/resolv.conf squashfs-root/etc/resolv.conf

cp /etc/hosts squashfs-root/etc/

cp -a /etc/apt/* squashfs-root/etc/apt/



mount --bind /dev/ squashfs-root/dev

chroot squashfs-root/ mount -t proc none /proc

chroot squashfs-root/ mount -t sysfs none /sys

chroot squashfs-root/ mount -t devpts none /dev/pts



export HOME=/root

export LC_ALL=C



echo "Refreshing Aptitude"

sleep 3

chroot squashfs-root/ aptitude update

chroot squashfs-root/ apt-get autoremove



echo "...Upgrading Packages"

sleep 3

chroot squashfs-root/ aptitude -f -y safe-upgrade



sleep 3



# Please edit for pkg's you want-

echo "Installing Packages you want"

sleep 3

chroot squashfs-root/ aptitude install -y -f menu firefox normalize-audio debhelper flashplugin-nonfree flashplugin-nonfree-extrasound alsamixergui lxappearance leafpad pcmanfm gdm usplash-theme-ubuntu ubuntu-standard casper laptop-detect os-prober ubuntu-laptop-mode ejecter extra-xdg-menus menu-xdg lupin-casper lupin-support lxterminal synaptic ubiquity ubiquity-frontend-gtk discover1 linux-generic gnome-device-manager gnome-menus gnome-settings-daemon gnome-mount gnome-terminal gnome-network-admin network-manager-gnome gnome-utils xarchiver gftp gimp gnome-extra-icons gnome-format gnome-themes-selected gnome-themes gnome-themes-extras buuf-icon-theme language-selector langupdate e17-svn



chroot squashfs-root/ apt-get check

chroot squashfs-root/ apt-get autoremove

chroot squashfs-root/ apt-get clean

chroot squashfs-root/ aptitude clean

chroot squashfs-root/ aptitude autoclean

chroot squashfs-root/ aptitude -y purge linux-image-2.6.31-14-generic



# prevent the installer from changing the apt sources.list (hopefully?)



#cp /usr/share/ubiquity/apt-setup squashfs-root/usr/share/ubiquity/apt-setup.saved



sleep 3

echo "Starting Xnest Session..."

Xnest -ac :2 &

echo "Please set up your root & user Desktop,etc then logout of your Desktop & kill Xnest"

sleep 3

chroot squashfs-root/ env DISPLAY=":2" opt/e17/bin/enlightenment_start &

sleep 3



echo "Updating e17> "easy_e17.sh -u"

chroot squashfs-root/ easy_e17.sh -u



echo "Updating initramfs..."

sleep 3

chroot squashfs-root/ usr/sbin/update-initramfs -u -v



echo "Creating filesystem.manifest and filesystem.manifest-desktop"

echo "...Copying installed packages text to image/"

sleep 3

chroot squashfs-root/ dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} ${Version}\n' > image/casper/filesystem.manifest

cp image/casper/filesystem.manifest image/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop



#cleanup chroot

echo "Cleaning up chroot..."

chroot squashfs-root/ rm -rf /tmp/*

chroot squashfs-root/ rm /etc/resolv.conf

chroot squashfs-root/ apt-get check

chroot squashfs-root/ apt-get autoremove

chroot squashfs-root/ apt-get clean

chroot squashfs-root/ aptitude clean

chroot squashfs-root/ aptitude autoclean

chroot squashfs-root/ umount -l -f /proc

chroot squashfs-root/ umount -l -f /sys

chroot squashfs-root/ umount /dev/pts

umount squashfs-root/dev



echo "Copying your kernel and initrd for the livecd"

cp squashfs-root/boot/vmlinuz-`uname -r` image/casper/vmlinuz

cp squashfs-root/boot/initrd.img-`uname -r` image/casper/initrd.lz



echo "Removing old SquashFS filesystem..."

rm image/casper/filesystem.squashfs



echo "Creating new SquashFS filesystem...This will take a while"

sleep 1

mksquashfs squashfs-root image/casper/filesystem.squashfs



echo "Finding and creating MD5 hash sums of files in image..."

cd image

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > md5sum.txt



sleep 3

exit



echo "Creating new image..."

cd ..

mkisofs -r -V "Ubuntu 9.10 i386" -cache-inodes -J -l \

-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \

-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o Easy_e17-9.10-i386-alpha1.iso image/



#cleanup working directory

echo "Cleaning up working directory..."

umount iso/



# In case you want to chroot back into squashfs-root or fix something in image/ , deleting squashfs-root and image folders commented out.

#rm -rf squashfs-root

#rm -rf image

rm -rf iso

rm filesystem.squashfs



echo "Getting MD5 and SHA1 sum of image..."

echo "MD5: " > Easy_e17-9.10-i386-alpha1.sums

md5sum Easy_e17-9.10-i386-alpha1.iso >> Easy_e17-9.10-i386-alpha1.iso.md5sums

echo "SHA1: " >> Easy_e17-9.10-i386-alpha1.sums

sha1sum Easy_e17-9.10-i386-alpha1.iso >> Easy_e17-9.10-i386-alpha1.iso.sha1sums



END=$(date +%s)



echo "Done at `date`. The whole process took $(($END - $START)) seconds!"

exit

so, if the Xnest part works, which I'll know in a moment...