Installing using up-to-date packages

[mightyiam]

Dear friends,

I'm looking for a way to make custom installation media which has the latest packages so that the system installed is already up-to-date.

By latest packages I mean packages from the <release>-updates and <release>-security archive sections.

First purpose of this is encountering less bugs during and after installation.

And the second purpose is that I won't have to upgrade packages after installation, or that I won't have to update as many packages after installation (depending on the up-to-date-ness of my media).

I think that for me, the best option would be to have all the packages on a USB stick/flash drive. This way it will be a fast installation and the media is very portable. This would require a workaround for systems which can't boot from USB (A custom GRUB CD perhaps?)

A bonus would be for me to learn how to put further packages on the media and have them installed by the installer. I would use this to install extra packages by default like packages from Medibuntu.

[phillw]

Hi,

The alternate install cd may be what you are looking for. I'm not sure how often that image is updated tho'.

http://releases.ubuntu.com/karmic/

Regards,
Phill.

[mightyiam]

The alternate install cd may be what you are looking for. I'm not sure how often that image is updated tho'.

Dear Phill,

Perhaps I didn't explain myself clearly enough.

I'm looking to learn how to make my own installation media. While it may be based on the original media, perhaps the alternate CD, it is not just it.

[PRC09]

Maybe try the daily build for each distro such as:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dvd/current/

[mightyiam]

Maybe try the daily build for each distro such as:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dvd/current/
Dear PRC09,

Thank you but it seems that for karmic, the 'release' and 'current' are the same:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/release/MD5SUMS
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dvd/current/MD5SUMS

[phillw]

Dear friends,

I'm looking for a way to make custom installation media which has the latest packages so that the system installed is already up-to-date.

By latest packages I mean packages from the <release>-updates and <release>-security archive sections.

First purpose of this is encountering less bugs during and after installation.

And the second purpose is that I won't have to upgrade packages after installation, or that I won't have to update as many packages after installation (depending on the up-to-date-ness of my media).

I think that for me, the best option would be to have all the packages on a USB stick/flash drive. This way it will be a fast installation and the media is very portable. This would require a workaround for systems which can't boot from USB (A custom GRUB CD perhaps?)

A bonus would be for me to learn how to put further packages on the media and have them installed by the installer. I would use this to install extra packages by default like packages from Medibuntu.

I think I may understand what you are wanting .... The Istallation without using internet to get the updates ? In which case I think you want to look at something like APTonCD http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/08/aptoncd-create-local-removable.html gives you an over-view of what it does.

I'm thinking along the lines of alternative cd type install, then run APTonCD to get all the updates / codecs etc - you can then update the image for APTonCD as often as you want

An option to APTonCD is http://keryxproject.org/ you may want to have a look at that one, also.

Hope this helps,

Phill.