Hello again,

Okay, I am not sure what I am looking for but I keep hitting roadblocks.. Im hoping someone has experience with this that can help.

Basically, I am wanting to make a Ubuntu distribution that has Trinity Desktop natively on it. It was done before with version 10.10 but I want to make an updated version. So here it what I did:

1. Created a Ubuntu 11.10 system in VMware and updated it.
2. Uninstalled all Gnome components from a website I found
3. Installed Trinity and updated to current

So now what is the best way to make this installation a Live CD? From the last disc I saw ubiquity which seems to be a Ubuntu based installer that worked before so I am assuming I can use that. But I am finding so many options for a Live CD that may or may not work, I guess Im looking for guidance is all.

Remastersys?

http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/

I was looking at that earlier.. I dont think it will do what I am wanting though. Take an installation and convert it into a livecd with an installer?

Remastersys is designed to do just that. It does take a bit of work.

You need to make sure you put all relavent ~/.hidden files that you want as system defaults in /etc/skel for one thing.

It uses a different installer but works fine.

I am not sure how up to date it is. There was a time when the dev backed way off. Seemed to want a life or something.

Last time I checked you needed to replace grub2 with grub-legacy for it to work but that may have been fixed.

I know that it works fine for making backup disks which are much easier to do.

It would not hurt a bit to give it a whack.

The meathod that Ubuntu suggests in their documentation should also work. I believe that involves getting a Live CD and altering it directly. That may be a problem with your plan.

There is also, in your repo, live-build and live-magic. Live-build is what Debian uses to build Live CDs and so does Ubuntu. The Ubuntu scripts would be somewhat different from the Debian ones as files go in some different places.

I have never looked into the Ubuntu documentation on live-build but Debian has an excellent manual (for their version only) and I would thing Ubuntu would have one tool.

From my experience with Debian live-build it works well. It is a command line tool. live-magic is the gui front end for it.

Don't know how it is in the Ubuntu packages but the Debian gui version is buggy.

remastersy, by the way can be used in a gui or command line way. I found the command line much more reliable.

remastersys isnt really made anymore. I did find a copy and it seemed to work, but when I try the iso it creates, none of the menu options work saying it cant find a casper image.

the live-build and magic installed fine but when i try to create anything.. the program just sits there doing nothing.

Remastersys was the easy way. It basically cloned the system you had installed.

If Live Build is like it is in Debian it build a completely new version based on a preset base version.

What you might want to do is have a look at the Debian live build manual.

This is the manual for the Debian stable version of live build;
http://live-manual.debian.net/manual-2.x/html/en/

I have not built a custom image yet. But I have built the first too "examples" and that went very well.

If you really want to build an image using outside repo sources I would highly recommend wading through the entire manual.

This may give you some insite on the Ubuntu version. If not you could always do it with a Debian base.

Was cleaning out some dead bookmarks and found this.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Li...20and%20chroot

This might be usefull too.
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/273

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Thank you!

I will read them over and see if I my little mind can figure it out

Believe me, I can understand a feeble mind particularly when faced with documents written for geeks.

Ugh yea.. I have had little success with this. Im glad I am on a vm because this would become particularly frustrating otherwise :P