Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Kaldersvell OS: Ubuntu GNOME derivative

[Tim <darkxst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 31/07/15 02:39, Kaldersvell OS wrote:
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> Hi there!
> My name is David. I, along with the rest of the Kaldersvell team are trying to make our own distro named Kaldersvell, and we are having it
> based off of Ubuntu GNOME. This is a project that we, as high schoolers, are trying to attempt to do, so please bear with us. We do, however,
> all have quite a bit of experience in c++. And so, after applying only slight modifications, namely just changing backgrounds (in order to get
> a feel for the process). All names of the files that were altered stayed the same. We used squashfs in order to unpack. Then we resquahed. The
> OS was then burned onto a disk. After starting the computer from the disk, it begins to boot, and the boot screen even shows up. However,
> after a while we get the error message: "(initramfs) unable to find a medium containing a live file system." Does anyone have any ideas as to
> how to solve this issue? We have already tried switching to ACHI. It's a disk, so no worry about USB2/3. In bios other/legacy selected. All to
> no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>

I would strongly advise against going down that path, while its certainly possible to remaster an ISO by replacing files within the sqaushfs, it
is a terrible idea and is only going to cause problems for your users (and probably false bug reports for our project).

The right way to do this, is to make customisations within the relevant debian packages (see for example ubuntu-gnome-default-settings package),
host these on a ppa, then use live-build to generate the new ISO's. You would also need to fork the ubuntu-gnome seeds and ubuntu-gnome-meta
package also.

You can find a basic intro to live-build here:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2011/06/msg00152.html

Also note this is really not the correct list for such discussions!


> Regards,
> The Kaldersvell team
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