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Ah, but the point here is the ability to make a CUSTOM live cd, containing the programs and potentially data that we choose.

That sounds suspiciously like the problem I was originally having. The problem turned out to be that there was a user that should have been deleted from the shadow and password files that wasn't...

Can you mention what is and what is not being preserved?

I just ran grub-mkrescue directly from the command line instead of from the script and it worked fine!

grub-mkrescue --output=~/live-cd.iso ~/cd

The live CD was generated and all users are...

Thanks for the reply Capink.

when you say add username=whateverUsername to bootoptions, do you mean like so...?

menuentry "Ubuntu GUI" {
linux /boot/vmlinuz boot=casper quiet splash...

I've run into a situation where it would be useful to create a live cd with non-system users intact.

I tried to modify the procedure above to do so by dropping the routine that removes users and...

Thanks! That did the trick!


You've really helped my project along and helped open up a new playground of creating custom CDs :)


The user with the uid of 999 was created by virtualbox when...

Hm. I seem to have confused myself along the way somewhere. I just mounted the live-cd.iso and the filesystem.squashfs and looked at /etc/passwd again. There are no users with uid's greater than...

Thanks for the quick reply Capink! You helpful folks in the linux community are one of the reasons I'm such a huge fan of the OS!


Ok, Following the tutorial as written: after unmounting, just...

Great tutorial!
I'm having an issue with login on the live cd though. It asks for a login. My specific details...
I'm trying to create a live cd of ubuntu 10.10 from an installation in virtual...

My computer is an amd64.
Last week while surfing the web using a live cd of Ubuntu 9.10 x 32, firefox started crashing constantly.

I tried a few other live cd's including 9.04, 9.10, 10.04...

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I'm trying to set up mysql and jdbc driver to work with java and I'm having a problem when I try to connect.
MySQL server is 5.0.67
mysql-connector-java5.0.8

Code is as follows:
import...

I too would like to see this in a linux format. But unlike microsoft's product I'd like to see it run entirely locally. -- and not as a desktop toy like compiz fusion but as a standalone application....