[GTALUG] Hiring Someone to do a Custom Ubuntu Spins

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Fri Oct 14 10:29:28 EDT 2016


On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:55:43PM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> On 16-10-13 01:18 PM, Marcus Brubaker via talk wrote:
> >I'm involved in a start-up which has developed software to run on Ubuntu
> >Linux [1].  We're currently looking to sell "appliance" servers with the
> >software pre-installed.  We want to streamline the installation process by
> >building a custom install ISO which uses our required partitioning scheme
> >and installs some additional drivers and software that are not available on
> >the base image.
> 
> I don't know how closely your application is tied to Ubuntu. One option you
> have would be to look at rolling your own ISO using Morphix. I've used it
> before to create a bootable USB key with the software needed to run a kiosk.

Why not just use the official preseed with custom iso option:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization

Writing a pressed file that does the partitioning and installs extra
packages is not hard.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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