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I need to save a customized live distro that I use to boot off a USB keydrive, where "customized" means that I added/removed applications and drivers, changed settings like the keyboard layout, the language used in the UI, the desktop background picture, etc.
I'm confused about the different tools I heard of to save a live distro into an ISO file that can then be used to burn it to a USB/CD: Remastersys (only for Debian/Ubuntu), MondoRescue, Mylivecd, Reconstructor, and relinux. There are possibly other tools as well.
I don't know yet if I'll for Ubuntu or Fedora (or possibly yet some other distro, but it's unlikely). Which tool would you recommend for this project?
I've done this many times in the past using squashfs tools, chroot, and manually customizing the distros. However, recently I've found a great tool called Ubuntu Builder. It makes customizing really easy.
Thanks. I'll read up on making a keydrive persistent to check that it can indeed be used to customize a standard live ISO, and study Ubuntu Builder as an alternative to the Ubuntu Customization Kit.
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