How to make a live CD/DVD from your harddisk installation

[maybeway36]

This erro is appearing in casper.log on my new Jaunty custom CD:

Begin: Running /scripts/casper-premount ...
Done.
Done.
/init: line 1: cannot open /dev/sda: no such file
mount: Mounting /dev/loop0 on //filesystem.squashfs failed: Invalid argument
Can not mount /dev/loop0 (/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs) on //filesystem.squashfs

This seems to happen when I build an Intrepid CD too? Anyone know why?

[chris4585]

This tutorial was great, but needs to be updated IMO, a script I made use to work 100% flawless using these guidelines, now it hardly functions the same as it did.

[maybeway36]

Update: I built my Jaunty CD on Intrepid, and it worked fine. Go figure.

[uflieven]

For those who don't know the login and the password, try the following:
username: ubuntu
password: (nothing) -> just press enter

Hope this helps...

I have a problem with jaunty. When booting from my live-cd, it got stuck almost halfway through the progress-bar. When I switch to a console, it seems to got stuck at configuring network interfaces.

After pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, it continues and after it has booted up, I can use the internet without any problem. But the fact that it hangs halfway through the progress-bar and that i have to mess around to get my custom cd booted, annoys me.

I'am using wicd as network manager instead of gnome-network-manager. Any ideas?

Update: Seems there's absolutely no problem with the instructions on this site, nor with my hardware. It has all to do with a missing package (but sadly enough i can't figure out which one...)

[shafin]

Thanks a lot for the guide, worked wonderfully on my Jaunty installation

[ciborro]

Hi,

Big thanks for this great tutorial.
Almost works perfect but...

I have one little problem, I would like to change one file ( something like this , I don't remember clearly because I write from work /etc/event/tty1 ) whatever I would like to change line with getty to run /directory/myscript.sh on first console. But something changed this file after mksquashfs command. How to change this file permanently.

Regards.
Przemek.

[Pax-Man]

Great post! It helped me with my new notebook

[Trapper]

For me this was an excellent HowTo. I just followed the instructions and ended up with a LiveCD from my current Jaunty X86_64 install. Did another install from the livecd and it works just fine. Thanks for your work.

[Trapper]

What files would I have to edit to change the default desktop a bit? For example, on my jaunty livecd install I want a launcher for nautilus directly on the desktop and a couple of other launchers on the upper panel available to a new user at first login.

There are also a couple of options in nautilus that I would like to have enabled in the default nautilus configuration.

[chris4585]

In the /etc/skell folder, everything you want the live user to be in the home folder put in /etc/skell. For example if you want a launcher on your desktop put it /etc/skell/Desktop/ (of course after creating the Desktop folder).

Hope that helps