CREATE CUSTOM UBUNTU LIVE CD/DVD WITH REMASTERSYS

Remastersys is a tool that can be used to  make a full system backup including personal data to a live cd or dvd that you can use anywhere and install. It can make a distributable copy you can share with friends.


  HOW TO INSTALL REMASTERSYS:
1.add Remastersys repository  to your /etc/apt/sources.list

$gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

2.Paste the following into the sources.list:

# Remastersys
deb http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/repository karmic/

3.Save and exit the file.
4.Update the source list using the following command

$sudo apt-get update

5.Install remastersys using the following command

$sudo apt-get install remastersys

This will complete the installation
Using Remastersys
6.In order to learn how you can use remastersys, run

$sudo remastersys

7.remastersys Syntax

$sudo remastersys backup|clean|dist [cdfs|iso] [filename.iso]

8.remastersys Examples
   1) to make a livecd/dvd backup of your system

$sudo remastersys backup

  2) to make a livecd/dvd backup and call the iso custom.iso

$sudo remastersys backup custom.iso

  3) to clean up temporary files of remastersys

$sudo remastersys clean

 4) to make a distributable livecd/dvd of your system

$sudo remastersys dist

 5) to make a distributable livecd/dvd filesystem only

$sudo remastersys dist cdfs

  6) to make a distributable iso named custom.iso but only if the cdfs is already present

$sudo remastersys dist iso custom.iso

cdfs and iso options should only be used if you wish to modify something on the cd before the iso is created. An example of this would be to modify the isolinux portion of the livecd/dvd


9.Creating An ISO Image
To create an iso image of your installation, simply run

$sudo remastersys dist

This will create an iso image called customdist.iso in the /home/remastersys directory. The dist option makes that your personal folder (e.g. /home/deepak) will not be included in the iso image. You might have to insert your Ubuntu installation CD during the process.
This is how the end of the process looks:
[...]




99.54% done, estimate finish Wed MAY 28 15:31:25 2011
Total translation table size: 2048
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 3950
Total directory bytes: 9094
Path table size(bytes): 54
Max brk space used 0
406890 extents written (794 MB)


10./home/remastersys/customdist.iso is ready to be burned or tested in a virtual machine.


11.Check the size and if it is larger than 700MB you will need to burn it to a dvd
796M /home/remastersys/customdist.iso


12.Clean Up


After you’ve burnt the iso image onto a CD/DVD, you can run
sudo remastersys clean


to remove all temporary file created during the iso generation as well as the /home/remastersys directory.