Ubuntu :: Customize The Installation For Distribution?
Jan 17, 2010
How to customize the Ubuntu Installation for your Distribution - TUTORIAL I have looked a lot in almost every page in Ubuntu, Google and some other Linux Distributions Forums, Help Guides and Tutorials, and have never been able to customize, or even find a valuable source on customzing the Ubuntu Installation, also known as Ubiquity. Now if you are planning on creating a LiveCD or Ubuntu-based Distribution using Remastersys or some program like that, then you will love this tutorial, as do I. First of all, make sure you have Ubiquity installed.Quickly goto Synaptic now, and check. Once you have that, go inside a terminal and type sudo nautilus.Then goto /usr/share/ubiquity. You will see some system files which I will now mention again in this tutorial for the sake of my tiredness.
Here you will see the images that are presented when you select your region in the installation process. You may customize it, but I hardly recemmond it as the areas I tell you to customize are far more rewarding. Now, just go inside the "ubuntu" folder and see the "logo.png". Customize it to have your own Logo and Distribution Name. After you finish that come out of it, all the way back to /usr/share. Now we go inside the big area, where we customize a LOT. Go inside "Ubiquity-Slideshow" folder. In this folder you will see the images and text that pop up during the installation of Ubuntu. Do you remember?
Now just go into Slides/icons and here you will see the beautiful icons of all the slides. You may notice the extroadinary graphics and input the Ubuntu team has put into most of these, and so I have decided not to customize this, but you can surely go ahead. However, for legal sake, I had to customize the logo which I have changed it to be mine (that is I deleted the Ubuntu logo and replaced it with a High-Quality version of my logo). Once you feel you have done enough, please go out of that folder and scroll straight down to customize the writing on the slides in the installation.
Here you will see 13 .html files. HTML is simple, you do not have to know anything in HTML to customize these files, however you must understand to not go out of the boundaries. Stay in the templates, because saying too much will look un-Professional and dodgy when it comes to size issues. I prefer Cutting huge paragraphs of writing in between the "" and starting to type about the subject in My Distributions way. Making sure that I do not exceed the previous 3-4 sentence that Ubuntu already had. Ok, to customize these .html files I will quickly show you one of them and customize it before I fall asleep on my keyboard. Right-click "accessibility.html". Click OPEN WITH and select GEDIT.
You will see something like this, however where it says Gosalia, that is my operating system, it used to say Ubuntu. CAUTION - Do not copy my work, there will be severe consequences, considering I took 5 minutes to write it and the rough work your Operating System installation will look...
Quote:
<h1 class="title">Accessibility in Gosalia</h1>
<div class="main">
<div class="content"><ul>
[code]....
Enjoy, do this to all of them remembering to only write in between the <li> and the </li> Remember one thing, where it says "UBUNTU" you can change it, unless it is a file name, then DON'T CHANGE IT! Oh yes, and now when you create your ISO with Remastersys (or equivalent) then you will have your customized Installation ready in the LIVECD process, check it out! It worked for me, and it is spectacular. Making a Video about this now...
I would like to install a program (R for statistical computing). I am using Slackware. On the download page of R (The Comprehensive R Archive Network) there are options to download the code for Debian, Redhat, Suse, and Ubuntu. Which one should I download in my case (using Slackware)? Is there any of them which I should not download?
I would like to know how and if is it possible to customize a distro to run live from usb. I need to install some packages that are not default. Is it possibile? I know there is an executable that makes every distro live to usb, it's available on the ubuntu main site.
Since next launch will have Unity desktop, I decided to install the netbook and available unity edition for 10.10, but my experience has been less than pleasant. :-/ I'll post a few comments about my worries, perhaps you know how to solve them already. The left bar is nice: but so far I've been unable to customize it! Not intelhidding, nor control over the size. The pick into the dock problem has already solve for unity but not for Netbook. Personally, I rather prefer a docky panel instead of an un-customizable bar.
Mension by a lot of people, the <Alt>-F1 and <Alt>-F2 binding are not working. I've never used <Alt>-F1 but <Alt>-F2 is quite useful for the intermediate or advance user. The Super-key: In netbook desktop somehow I loved that the super-key allows us to select a launcher from the bar. However this functionality is not in Unity. Worse, each time I press super-key, it sends me to the menu... How could I use the compiz functions so? like Super-a My compiz-configuration from Gnome is used by Unity... so when I press the show desktops I can see only one. How do I get 4 of them? I really, really love the fact that in the upper bar are shown the menu of the current selected window, specially because one can un-maximize the window and the menu remains in the panel. Perhaps the upper border of the graphical windows could be made thiner.. since there is no menu there any more!
I think this is mostly it! Anyway... I'll keep in touch Although all my possible negative comment, I think you have done a remarkable work with this environment... but we all know that mind breaking changes should support crisis! Don't they?!
Is there any good way of distribution a ubuntu installation on workstations using PXE?And is it possible to pre-configure the installation with various settings?
I just installed Debian 6.0 (squeeze) on my laptop with the GNOME 2.30 desktop on my Toshiba Satellite A100-VA3 laptop. I have never used GDM3. How do I configure GDM and customize my login screen and wallpaper?
I was fed up installing Fedora on many of my friend's laptop and doing the same and same thing again. So I've made a Fedora post installation script which does all I want to. Currently the script can:
Add user to sudoers Configure yum to keep package cache Fix a problem with Revisor Add additional repos Install multimedia codecs Install flash(32-bit only) Install wine with gecko, Install GTalk plugin Add colors to bash prompt Add fortune messages to bash prompt Set SELinux in permissive mode Install additional softwares
By default, when you run the script, it will ask if you want to accept default configuration or use customize the changes. You can also run ./fedora-firstrun.sh -y to run the script with default configuration. To add yourself to sudoers, run the script as normal user. If you are not in sudoers list, the script will ask you to add to sudoers.
I'd like to upgrade my 9.10 desktop to 10.04 but I can't get past step 1.I've done alt-f2 and issued update-manager -d, but no "New distribution" option is presented.I've clicked the "check" button and updated all my repo information but that doesn't help.I've done a wireshark trace and observed that the update-manager's requests get through the corporate firewall, and responses come back.Somehow it determines that no new distro is available.I'll explore further if someone could help me out with getting hold of the relevant update-manager source code.
I am on a 10.04 desktop, it was previously set to only upgrade to LTS releases. I have change it to do normal distribution releases. This is checkable in the update manager and /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
Since 9.10 was available, I've been unable to upgrade to the next distribution. Today I actually took the time to copy down and make note of the error given. The pop-up error is this: Could not calculate the upgrade
I am trying to upgrade my ubuntu distribution from 9.10 to 10.04 using update-manager. I have only 2G free in my / partition, and update-manager complains saying it needs 4G free in the / partition to upgrade.
I presume the space is needed to store downloaded packages. Is there any way I can change the download directory to some other partition (i have plenty of space in other partitions)?
I've been yum upgrading since Fedora 3. For the first time, I did a fresh install with Fedora 15 and I found that ibmcam.ko is no longer part of the distribution in any way (even through rpm fusion). Is there a replacement for ibmcam.ko so I can get my cam working again?
In the past I have used Slackware, but I changed to Gentoo because Slackware don't have a nice package manager. I like Gentoo very much, because you have control over your installation from the very beginning. You can tweak your installation, before it's a running installation.
The main problem is that you need to compile everything from source (this has some benefits), but i haven a 3.0ghz pentium 4, so compiling a full system takes days. That's not I want.
Because of that I tried Debian, it's nice because of the large collection of precompiled packages. However, it's seems like it is less Stable then Gentoo (i run debian sid, because i need the newer applications). It's also harder to configure to my needs.
Is there a (Gentoo-based) distribution that gives the user a lot of control on the installation proces (like gentoo) and afterwards gentoo-like configuration (it was so much better then Debian, for example: Where is the xorgconfig utility in debian? I know there is something called dpkg-reconfigure to configure X, but that didn't asked me about videocard and monitor settings, only keyboard related options)
But the distribution must have binaries for all (or at least a lot of) programs.
Is there such a distribution? What does come closest to my needs?
Every where I look online, people are posting ridiculous non-working ways to upgrade their system from one release to another--they do not work for me and I need a definite expert reply. I am working with a fresh install of Debian Lenny/Stable and wish to upgrade to the frozen Squeeze distribution. Supplementing the word "squeeze" in place of "lenny" in my sources.list file does not work and believe this to be an inappropriate way of upgrading. I have tried upgrading apt, dpkg, and aptitude before beginning the upgrade process, cleaning dpkg cache, rebooting, etc.
After updating the above packages I tried all methods of upgrading: safe-upgrade, full-upgrade, and dist-upgrade. All produce dependency problems and try to remove the gnome-desktop package or upgrade everything else except gnome-desktop. (Other packages are also affected, gnome-desktop is the most important in this instance). As I understand it, when upgrading you can comment out the volatile repositories as well as the security updates, is this correct?--either way I have tried countless combination's off commenting/uncommenting to try to get the needed results. I do not want use sid repos or reinstall.
I want to customize ubuntu server installation.Something like this> While installing, I want to add few extra packages from URL...Some extra .deb files will get installed while installation process. How can I do that ?
Is it possible to alter questions to the CentOS installer?
eg/ it could ask what platform you're on, instead of what packages you want to install, and it would then perform a function (eg/ installing drivers) based on the platform (be it dell etc.)
Is this possible and can anyone point me in the right direction to accomplish this?
This new feature of either making me wait a full minute or yet a confirmation of what I have already prompted the machine to do, ie. reboot or shut down, is a brainless waste of code. If it were a little easier to "accidentally" reboot it would be a different story. But to manually open the shutdown menu and click "shutdown" or "reboot" and then have the machine make me wait or manually instruct it to proceed with the command I have already issued is just, ... well, it's just plain dumb.
It's probably derived from the same logic which "upgraded" the package manager to only allow one package selection at a time. Yet another brain fart. I'm going to get "upgraded" right into another linux distribution if this kind of idiocy continues!
I'm running 8.04 on my desktop system. I haven't used it in quite awhile, but I logged in today to find 100+ updates and figured I may as well update the system.
Then I realized that unlike my other Ubuntu machines, I don't have a "New distribution release is available" prompt in the update manager.
I went ahead and ran the 100 updates and rebooted and still don't see that option.
I have never in my life got this to install correctly. No the recommended drivers dont seem tow work well for me so I want to install the drivers properly from the website. Something that people have said solvs many problems. I keep getting "The distribution-provided pre-install script failed! Continue installation anyway?" Anyways here is my log.
Quote: nvidia-installer log file '/var/log/nvidia-installer.log' creation time: Sun Aug 15 15:34:52 2010 installer version: 256.44
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and 2.6.35-27-generic. When I run the Upgrade Manager, the 'Distribution Upgrade' window pops up and in bold letters reads 'Running partial upgrade'.
The next line reads '>Preparing to upgrade' and sits there. Mean while, the process begins to perform a great deal of constant hard drive activity. The window's horizontal activity bar reads 'Calculating the changes' at the bottom of the 'Distribution Upgrade' window.
I'm trying to install the fhi98pp packag. but i dont understand this Instructions: Code:
a) Customize "Makefile" in "./src". You need to set compiler and linker flags compatible to your platform. Some linear algebra package is required, and you need to specify either use of the ESSL library or the libFREE library (an excerpt of the LAPACK package put into "./lib").
b) If libFREE is used make should take automatically care of generating and linking this library. Alternatively go to "./lib" and create the archive "libFree.a" using <make -f make.libFree>. Again you need to set appropriate compiler flags in "make.libFree" first.
but all the essential options are grayed out. Same goes for moving, unlocking and removing existing applets and so on.
I tried all the standard config, looked in gconf, searched in ~/.gnome, found nothing. I can change the session to Gnome and customize Gnome panel just fine, but if I switch back to NBR (Maximus), the panel returns to default and the entries are disabled again with a truly microsoftish persistence...
Does anyone know of a beginners guide to wmii? I saw this picture, and thought it looked pretty cool. I was wondering if someone knew how to make the currently playing last fm song to show up on the bar like it does in that picture. Also, does anyone know of a way to display the amount of charge left in my laptop battery?
I have Ubuntu 10.04 with AWN 0.4 I have two applications that I have given custom icons because they have no default icon. I have both icons' .png files stored in an icons directory in my home folder. At first everything seemed to work fine, but then I noticed one day that one of the apps icons had changed to the same icon as the other app... So I tried switching it back, but when I changed the icon of one app, the other one changed also! Now I can't seem to assign more than one custom icon to multiple AWN launchers. What is the deal?
is there any way we can customize like we can customize in xp (desktop properties > appearance > advanced)i want to customize things like title bar height etc.
I think this is the most commonly asked question.I'm unable to customize my desktop. It gives me error saying "cannot customize desktop".As far as I know i was able to customize when i was using ubuntu 9.04.Right now its Ubuntu 10.10 and its a clean install.I have Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller. What do I need to do so that I can customize my desktop using visual effects.
How do I rearrange or otherwise customize the desktop menus and icons in the Netbook Remix? For example, I wish to combine the System Tools and System menus, and I want to rearrange the icons in the Favourites menu. There is no Control Panel (that I can find) which will let me do this.
