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[UndiFineD <undifined@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/2/27 Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 02/22/2011 11:55 PM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
>
>> Incidentally, I hope to build my first "more or less Lubuntu" ISO
>> from these two scripts, "hands off" except for entering a sudo
>> password, before I go to bed tonight ...
>
> That worked.  After that, I set up a and downloaded a local Ubuntu
> repository for natty (all 59GB of it), and arranged nightly automated
> updates to it, and then pointed debootstrap and apt at it during the ISO
> creation process, to reduce my ISO creation times -- I'm now down to 12
> minutes, by cheating the number of language-pack-gnome-* I use... so
> maybe 15mins if I undo that English-centric shortcut!
>
> Today (tonight?) I got the md5sum issue fixed (no need to edit the
> m5dsum.txt file by hand at all now for boot.cat, and no hex checksum
> strings in the script to stuff into md5sums.txt, either!).
>
> The resulting i386 ISO "works for me" in qemu as a livecd using
>
>  qemu -cdrom lubuntu-i386-20110227.iso
>
> The checksum test now passes, and and "Try it without installing" lets
> me do basic stuff ... minimal testing only, so far :)
>
> Next likely steps are:
>
>  (a) Look at why virtualbox is so unhappy with these ISO images
>  (b) Document the script, and give it back to Julien for comment
>  (c) Work on 64bit ISOs (will probably need work on livecd-rootfs
>     image creation, current approach has i386-isms in it I think)
>  (d) Work on alternate installer ISOs
>  (e) Work on automatic daily/weekly ISO creation and publication
>  (f) Relax, maybe? :)
>
> Jonathan
>
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I had no issue loading the install cd in virtualbox 4.0
however, the install cd might use elements from the VM guest additions
for virtualbox and vmware




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Met vriendelijke groeten,
Keimpe de Jong
(UndiFineD)