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« on: December 11, 2011, 11:03:39 PM » |
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I am doing my senior project on Linux in schools, and I have created a virtualbox with my system configuration for the school. Can i use this program to safely make my virtualbox session into a bootable CD. I know this question might be kind of redundant, but once you see what project I am doing you see why I want to have my I's and T's dotted and crossed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Project |
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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2011, 11:05:17 PM » |
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Also if this does work I will be donating as much as I can to this project. I am in high school so it may only be 100 bucks but i will try.
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« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2011, 11:11:34 PM » |
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Use this one http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/repository/ubuntu-testing/remastersys_3.0.0-1_all.debI just uploaded an updated and fixed one just a few minutes ago. The big thing is how much space you have on your virtual box setup. If you don't have enough space you'll have to create another virtual hd and mount it with your virtual machine. Then set the working folder to this new folder so you can remaster. |
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« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2011, 08:32:07 AM » |
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My virtualbox drive is expanding, and I gave it 15gigs to start with which seems to be enough. Can you explain to me how to make this program work is their a gui or is it command line, and is this against the rules of Ubuntu to create new live CDs
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« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2011, 08:36:51 AM » |
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Install the package and all dependencies. It will give you a menu option called Remastersys that is the gui frontend for it. Ubuntu is not against it. I post on the ubuntu forum about remastersys and have communicated with Colin Watson who is the Ubuntu dev that takes care of the live and installer.
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« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2011, 11:23:50 AM » |
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Will the GUI work in a virtualbox safely
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« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2011, 11:30:49 AM » |
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Why wouldn't it? I used to use VB all the time. The only reason I stopped was due to the bugs in it. In fact I did all my testing of the different versions of Ubuntu in VB to ensure remastersys worked fine. A couple of hard drive corruptions from VB and other bugs and I finally gave up on it.
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« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2011, 02:51:07 PM » |
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When i run the gui it says close all other applications do i need to uninstall Vbox guest addons before running the gui. Also because this is going to go on 200+ teacher computers is there any folders i need to exculde from the dist process I am running edubuntu 10.04
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« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2011, 03:00:52 PM » |
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No. Having no other regular apps open means that they are not locked especially if you are running the backup mode.
Guest additions should be fine.
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« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2011, 03:07:46 PM » |
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What about folders I need to exclude for the LiveCD creation
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« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2011, 03:24:10 PM » |
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If you are making a dist mode remaster then you should be ok. If you are making a backup then you might want to exclude some larger files from your home folder so it fits in 4GB compressed.
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« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2011, 08:02:17 PM » |
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I want to install this theme http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2-7+Pack?content=113264 in my cd will your program save the theme? I also want to leave instructions in the form of text files on the desktop will your program keep those. If it does not do this by default how can I make it do this. Thank you for all of your time helping me fix this issue |
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« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2011, 08:23:33 PM » |
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You have to install the theme globally. If their installer works properly it should do that for you. Make sure to use the Select user whose settings will be used as default before remastering. I would then suggest exiting remastersys, creating a new test user and seeing if it is as you expect since that is what the live user will look like. Remove the test user, tweak as needed, copy settings to default and try creating again until you have it how you want it. When done you can run remastersys to create your iso for you.
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« Reply #13 on: December 13, 2011, 10:13:59 AM » |
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I am going to check into your program. I will create the test user, but I am now confused do i need to delete the current user and create a test user and then install the theme, or do I need to install the theme (globally if i can) and then create the iso as a guest with no user.
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« Reply #14 on: December 13, 2011, 11:12:49 AM » |
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If you do not install the theme globally it will not be there. No you do not have to delete your user.
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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2011, 11:21:50 AM » |
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Can i delete my user so that The teacher will be able to create their own with their own password You have to understand this is going to be used by 2000+ people it has to be easy to use and installable on most hardware.
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« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2011, 12:27:20 PM » |
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If you use dist mode it won't be there anyway. It will be a clean iso with no users.
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« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2011, 01:50:33 PM » |
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Can i source this project in my senior project. Like can i put this project in my official senior project bibliography.
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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2011, 02:37:24 PM » |
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If you mean mentioning you used then you sure can.
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2011, 10:02:16 PM » |
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If I run into any issues will someone be their to help me. This is going to be a big project and you have to understand I am still in high school. I am acually kind of nervous of my proposal to the school board of Linux in Schools
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