I was wondering if there was a relativity easy way to take any version of Ubuntu, (lets say 10.04), and add some extra codecs, programs, and stuff, and then compile it to get a .iso, so I can use this on my computer(s). Any way I can do this that won't compile in gentoo hours?
View 3 RepliesI created a custom linux distro that originated from ubuntu server and I installed time-admin and want to change the time without admin rights. Is this possible?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a question that I can't find anything about online. I have spent the last few months creating and customizing a Kubuntu OS for my company and we want to install it on roughly 45 computers (all different models). Is there a way to save my creation to a cd so it can be installed on another computer?
I know about creating an image of the HDD but what I want to do is create what you would get in the store from Microsoft. A complete OS on a CD, ready to install with all of my configuration changes already setup.
I've about 5.5GB of free space....whenever I try to compile the kernel my system runs out of space...says zero bytes remaining maybe I din't configure it that well I cant exactly figure out which drivers/modules I need in order to obtain a working kernel.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI would like to take say, CentOS5, customize it to my needs, then make an installer ISO for it.Basically I'd like it to be a next next next install, and it has everything already in it like sshfs, basic config files, and other custom stuff preconfigured. I tend to do all these things manually every time I install, and I'd like to just automate it all, and also not have to depend on an internet connection each time. How would How would I go about doing that? I don't want to just take a disk image, since then I'm restricted to that platform. I still want it to be a true installer.
View 5 Replies View Relatedscanning them with Avast! and Malwarebytes Anti-Malware or by running registry cleaners like Ccleaner.However, I think it would be cool to have a Live system that I could boot from my flashdrive that I could have programs installed to do all this with.It would be cool if I could use Puppy Linux, since it loads and runs from RAM, which gives a huge speed boost when compared to running a live version of a distro like Ubuntu, but I don't really know my way around Puppy, or how to make my own "pupplet". Also, from what I could tell, Puppy Linux didn't have a package manager like Pacman or Aptitude.Here's a list of programs I would like to have a Linux alternative to use:-Avast! Anti-virus-Ccleaner (registry cleaner)-Malwarebytes Anti-Malware/Superantispyware (malware/spyware cleaner)-Perhaps also a Defrag program like Defraggle
View 1 Replies View RelatedAs a Fan of openSuSE on the Desktop i'm about to create the version 2.0 of our local LUGS munotLinux distribution which should be localized for switzerland and contain a lot of additional software.
For this case I tried to modify the control.xml file in the root image for yast to hide the dialogs for language/keyboard layout, location and deskop choice (it will be a kde based distro). I can set the language, keyboard and location defaults correctly, but I couldn't get any success in disabling the regarding dialogs yet. And after all googeling and reading the available documentation I can't find a hint about the correct way to modify the control.xml this way.
I would like to compile a custom xen dom0 kernel. I installed a Debian Squeeze with precompiled xen kernel, and it works fine, but i would like to compile a custom dom0 kernel from source. I tried install kernel source apt-get source linux-2.6 how can I patch this kernel source with xen? but i alway see only the domU kernel params.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've compiled 2.6.35 for my eeepc, but I have noticed that resulting .deb file is 30mb large. After investigating i saw that modules (and maybe kernel) are compiled with debugging symbols enabled.I've checked my lenny router and modules there are without debugging symbols.So stock 2.6.26 from lenny comes without debugging symbols and linux-image .deb file is around 20mb.Stock 2.6.32-5-686 from squeeze comes with debugging symbols enabled - linux-image .deb here is 26mb. (I have used 2.6.32's .config file to build my kernel, then i did make oldconfig.)I guess this is what increase my kernel size, but how to disable it?Or maybe enable stripping of debugging symbols.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhen I only change a driver file manually, for example /newkernel/linux-source-.6.32/drivers/gpu/drm/i915_drv.h, do I need to run "make config" or similar like "make menuconfig" or can I just skip? I mean these steps:
1.) apt-get install linux-source-2.6.32
2.) mkdir ~/newkernel/
3.) cp /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2 ~/newkernel/
4.) cd /newkernel/
5.) tar xjf linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2
6.) cd linux-source-2.6.32
7.) cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) ./.config yes "" | make oldconfig
8.) change the driver file /newkernel/linux-source-2.6.32/drivers/gpu/drm/i915_drv.h manually
8.) make-kpkg clean
9.) make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd --revision=custom.001 kernel_image kernel_headers
10.) dpkg -i *.deb
Is this way OK or do I miss something?
Is there any way to add drivers to custom ubuntu iso builded with reconstructor or ubuntu customization kit .I want video drivers out of box like pclinuxos have.
View 2 Replies View RelatedJust spent three whole days barking up the wrong tree, solving Fedora 11 and Fedora 12 boot failures because the correct hypothesis was illogical: installation did not update/modify the initrd.
The first couple of times I installed Fedora 11 on the HighPoint Technologies RocketRaid 2640x4, the installation inserted my "custom" driver module (rr26xx) into the initrd, permanently, so that the system booted off the controller card for which the custom driver was inserted. (I yelled about this success in this thread: [url]
My most recent installs of BOTH F11 and F12 on the RocketRaid failed to properly set up the boot. It turns out that the "rr2640" module I "slipstreamed" into the installation process was *NOT* permanently added to the initrd by anaconda. (F12 gave me "no root device found boot has failed, sleeping forever", on boot; F11 hung also, without such error, I presume, during the init script execution). Because of limited resources and time, I only know for sure the module was missing from the F11 initrd, and am ASSUMING the same was the case with F12.
The only difference between the successful installs and the ones with failed boot is that the successful installs were made on a single-drive (JBOD) mode on the controller; whereas, the failed ones were placed on RAID 5. But, AFAIK, the created logical device for the card is "/dev/sda", in both cases, and the kernel can not distinguish between the two cases (or can it?). Thus, the inconsistency cost me a lot of time, and is still inexplicable to me.
Question: What is the best way to deal with custom drivers, today? There are custom spins, and many tools, like isomaster. Stupid question: Is there a way to modify the initrd inside an installer ISO -- be it for CD/DVD/USBboot drive -- beefing the init RAM disk with whatever modules you'd like, for the boot process (using, say, isomaster)?
And what makes anaconda understand that a module must be added to the initrd ? How can one force anaconda to do so?
How does moving to dracut as the initrd tool affect any/all of the above?
nominate a disastrous distro from past or present that was simply AWFUL and what exactly was so bad about it?
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a linux box set up as a multi-purpose server for my home with three Windows client PC's. The linux box is based on a slightly modified Slackware 9.0 distribution using Linux 2.4.20 and an unfortinately old, slow AMD processor with a miserable 512Kb RAM. The linux box serves the CIFS file system to the Windows boxes, runs the SQUID HTTP proxy, the Apache web server, a print server, does masquerading, mail serving and a very effective firewall using iptables.
This system, although slow, has run perfectly for several years.Let me say that again - This system works perfectly.I had decided that now is the time to upgrade the hardware, so I bought a Gigabyte LGA775 motherboard which has two 1Gb network interfaces on it, an ASUS 256Mb PCI-E display card, 2Gb of DDR3 RAM, an Intel Core2-Quad processor and a bunch of 500Gb SATA drives to set up a RAID5 array (but I intend that the system boot off one of several 40Gb PATA drives I have).I set up the processor, motherboard, display card, RAM, a SATA DVD Drive and a 40Gb PATA hard disk in a "breadboard" layout and installed distro 13.1, being careful to set up the static IP for the local network, dhcpcd to get an IP address from the cable modem (my internet connection) and to enable ip_forward in the network configuration.
Then I installed a script invoked by /etc/rc.d/rc.local which installed all the SAME iptables rules as my old Linux box. There was one minor glitch when I had to change 8 occurrences of "-d ! $LOCAL_NET to" "! --destination $LOCAL_NET" but that was no problem. I also set up /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/hosts , the BIND server files etc. etc. exactly as in the old box.
I am able to ping mirror.aarnet.edu.au (this is at the heart of Australia's internet hub network - if it's down the whole bloody thing is down) and have the system find the correct IP from the designated nameservers and contact that server with a return trip time of 35ms. I am able to run a telnet session from one of the Windows boxes and edit files on the Linux server. So both network interfaces work and I've got them the right way around.I am able to run FTP on one of the Windows boxes and connect through to mirror.aarnet.edu.au, although it seems to hang when I try a DIR (but then so does the old linux system).
Lubuntu is nice - but it seems the LXDE version is not as up to date as Fedora LXDE Spin or even Debian squeeze with LXDE installed. I do like Chromium on Lubuntu though... its faster and a nice touch. I am looking for a lightweight 64-bit distribution for my main laptop (it is by no means "old" or "low spec" but I like that Lubuntu starts up in like 2 secs).
LXDE version seems not to be recent (esp in 10.04 version which seems to work more stably for me - with Nvidia drivers etc)64 bit install is currently a pain - requires first install of minimal CD or alternate CD both of which required wired Ethernet, then install of lubuntu from PPA. Native 64-bit support would be nice. Linux Mint LXDE, for example, is also only 32-bit.
I wanted to try installing the Metisse window manager, and it depends on Nucleo. I got Nucleo from the AUR, but it fails to compile:
Code:
PNGenc.cxx: In function �void nucleo::png_memory_write_data(png_struct*, png_byte*, png_size_t)�:
PNGenc.cxx:38: warning: �png_struct_def::io_ptr� is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/libpng14/png.h:1125)
PNGenc.cxx:38: warning: �png_struct_def::io_ptr� is deprecated (declared at /usr/include/libpng14/png.h:1125)
PNGenc.cxx: In function �void nucleo::png_memory_read_data(png_struct*, png_byte*, [Code].....
I wanted to add some custom emblems so I could label my folders more effectively and after a little bit of work, I figured out how to do it and I thought I should share that info with the group. The first thing to note is that the emblems are stored in the folder /usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/emblems. The first problem you are going to run into is that you don't have permission to add files to this folder. The way I got around this was by changing the owner of the folder to myself. I am using a computer for recording, so my user name is "band." Change that to your user name.
Code: sudo chown band "/usr/share/icons/gnome/32x32/emblems" After you do that, you can paste your icons (I would use the .png format) into the folder. Next, you have to resize your icons so they are 32x32. You can do this by right clicking on the image then Open With > Gimp Image Editor. When Gimp starts up, go to Image > Scale Image. Change the width to 32. If your image is square, it will automaticly change the hight to 32. If it isn't then you can either force it to be 32 by unchecking the chain icon between the width and height, or you can resize the layer so it fits within 32x32. Then File > Save. If it is not a .png file, I would use Save As and save it as a .png by replacing the current format (.jpg, ect.) to .png. The Gimp will automaticly change the settings so it save it to the right format. I know for some of you these steps were obvious, but I thought I should help people out who aren't too familiar with the terminal or with the Gimp.
I want to create a custom ubuntu ISO (This ISO will contain all the packages with the latest updates released till date).
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have several DE, actually 5, and I want everyone to have custom start up. for example -wicd (daemon) and wicd-gtk to start up when I log in to 'awesome' ,'xfce4'and 'ratpoison'and the standart ones for gnome and kde.(btw, it's all happening in Arch linux, but I guess it's not a big deal)
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been using ubuntu for ages now and is 1 of my fav operating systems.
I would however like a distro which is ubuntu based except its basically blank.
for example there is a distro called tiny core linux (and micro core linux is the command line version) at 6 and 10 mb depending on which 1 u get.
I would basically like a distro like the micro core linux at 6mb but ubuntu based so i can build it from scratch exactly how i like without all the crap i dont want or use, which i can obviously insall ubuntu compiled apps on.
i kno there is linux from scratch but after playing for a short while its just 2 'scratchy' for me.
I have an old PC that runs win XP (slowish...) and was my faithful PC for 5 years. Alas, its RAM has degraded and it never had a graphics card to speak of, but it has a nice 1.6GHz CPU and a 80GB HDD. I'm thinking of using it has the network storage server, or just a second backup PC - and I want it as a file server to store my extra stuff.
Specs:
RAM: 192MBs (really degraded)
CPU: 1.6GHz AMD KM400
graphics: A graphics chip of 16MBs
HDD: 80GBs
It also has a optical drive capable of reading DVDs and writing CDs (but I'm not so sure on that one) and 6 USB ports. Which distro should I go for? I was thinking Xubuntu, and I don't want a server edition as me and CLIs are fine but not friends!
I'm purchasing a new laptop and considering the Dell XPS 14, customized.
Specifically, its customized to the sheet I've attached as PDF. The parts I'd assume are most important for Linux hardware compatibility, are:Processor: 2010 Intel CoreTM i5-430M 2.26GHz (2.53GHz Turbo Mode, 3M cache) Video Card: Intel HD Graphics. Wireless NIC: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200
Does anyone have any warnings about any of this hardware? I'd like to make sure I'm not going to run into any more issues (as I have personally, in the past) with drivers being crappy because the manufacturer refuses to open up to the Kernel Dev. community.
if you're looking at the PDF, then obviously ignore all the software garbage that Dell throws in (eg. MS Windows 7, Adobe, McAfee).
I am in the tasks section of the following tutorial [URL] I did the list package thing to see what packages there are. However now I cannot leave the list in order to run the purge command. How can I get back to the previous section so I can remove packages from the custom live cd. I want to make sure I am editing the live cd and not the current install. I am going to make two images. One cd that will still have a gui but I plan to build as a recovery tool. The other one is a dvd and will be for installing everything I want on any machine. I am doing the tutorial with Karmic. Also I have cursors, themes and icons I installed from gnome look. I then went to customize and created my own personal mix I like. I would like to make this a standalone theme and come as the default theme on the live cd and dvd. I have no clue what I am doing, however wish to learn to build my own custom live cd. Also I would like to know how to ad repositories to the live cd and how to add programs pre installed that are not usually included.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat I am going to tell you has worked for the Alternative Ubuntu ISO but I would like to see if I can do this for the Server Ubuntu ISO. I need to pass along some ideas as no one else seems to have tried it this way on this forum (other have been using preseeds but I don't think this way).[URL]Copy files from the mounted ISO to my HDD: cp -rf /mnt/ubuntu/* /opt/ubuntu-server/Once the files were on my HDD, I started to edit files that would help using a special preseed I wanted to configureI changed directories to /opt/ubuntu-server/preseed/ and created a file called test.seedI edited the test.seed file with the example found here:[URL]Saved it and changed directories to /opt/ubuntu-server/isolinux/Started the edit the text.cfg (holds the labels for installing ubuntu)Here is what I appended to the end of the file:
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label test-install
menu label ^Install Test Ubuntu
[code]....
I wasn't using my laptop for at least a few hours, but when I looked at it, it had seemed to crash. I am hoping to figure out what caused this, and to prevent it from happening again. I believe it has something to do with drm or b43 as that is what I could decipher from the screen. I have checked some logs and found nothing irregular. I do not want this to happen again. I am running kernel 2.6.33.1 with no patches and a custom config tailored to my processor. The reason I am running 2.6.33.1 is because of support for my Wifi.
View 5 Replies View RelatedFor a long time I've used a custom xsession that loads Mythtv without any sort of desktop environment. Every time I upgrade I've just backed up and restored my xsessions entry. I did the same when switching to 10.4 only to find that the custom xsession entry causes gdm to login WITHOUT a password.When I select the custom xsession in GDM I get logged in immediately without a password or confirmation. The expected behavior is that I'd select the xsession and not get logged in until after entering my password. I've done some trial and error with this issue and it seems that it boils down to a single line in the custom xsession file.
View 4 Replies View RelatedJust installed latest ubuntu,
I want the "system monitor" to pop up on ctrl+alt+delete, I'm still damaged from long time on windows ^^
Anyways this is what i have done:
1. system > keyboard shortcuts
2. made another shortcut for "log out" (is ctrl-alt-delete default)
3. then "add" name=Ctrl-Alt-Delete and command=gnome-system-monitor
Now my new custom shortcut is disabled. How can i enable this?
I'm sure this is possible to do, but how do I create a Ubuntu install cd that uses my current config. Ideally I would like to be able to install exactly what I have on my system now, without user files. Wine, Ccsm, amarok, audacity, themes the whole nine yards. I tried using a program called Ubuntu Customization Kit, but it wouldnt let me mount the normal ubuntu install .iso file. This would avoid the hour and a half post-install config every time I screw Ubuntu up as well as stripping off many of the programs I don't need...
View 3 Replies View RelatedPreload notes the applications I open frequently and preloads them for faster app. startup.
But is there any way in which I can add my own files to preload
I recently correctly installed a cursor theme in ubuntu 10.04. When I move the pointer around in a window the theme appears but when I move the pointer around on the desktop i changes to the default theme.
I think it's something with compiz because when I shut it down the theme appears on the desktop...