help to make unity Uubuntu test.iso

[ventrical]

I need some assistance to make a distro (unity7.iso or Uubuntu.iso) an upload it to a ppa.

I need step by step instruction of how to do this in launchpad? I think it would be. I don't like the idea of doing it alone. If we could make a seperate spin of unity them perhaps I can request that development be re-opened for a (unity9) spin for desktops only.

Any help , advice , comments, the good , the bad and the ugly .. please feel free to comment. All I ask is to stay on topic. We may get ubunt-desktop-team advice because I patch these threads out to the desktop-team

Regards..

[ventrical]

Sent this off to will Cooke.

[jbicha]

Making ISOs is difficult. That's why there is such strong incentive to become an official Ubuntu flavor. Ubuntu Budgie had to make ISOs until last year when they became official; System76 makes ISOs now.

PPAs host Ubuntu packages (.deb's) not ISOs.

What do you mean by Unity 9?

[sudodus]

I saw this answer at AskUbuntu. I think it could be useful

Q: Transfer all file and programs and settings to iso file; A: Systemback

I have not used it, but the instructions are rather detailed.

[sudodus]

Making ISOs is difficult. That's why there is such strong incentive to become an official Ubuntu flavor. Ubuntu Budgie had to make ISOs until last year when they became official; System76 makes ISOs now.

PPAs host Ubuntu packages (.deb's) not ISOs.

+1

Sourceforge is a possible host for iso files.

[ventrical]

I saw this answer at AskUbuntu. I think it could be useful

Q: Transfer all file and programs and settings to iso file; A: Systemback

I have not used it, but the instructions are rather detailed.

Thanks Sudodus. I am currently going to try UCK and taskel. If that don't work will try your suggest.

[ventrical]

Making ISOs is difficult. That's why there is such strong incentive to become an official Ubuntu flavor. Ubuntu Budgie had to make ISOs until last year when they became official; System76 makes ISOs now.

PPAs host Ubuntu packages (.deb's) not ISOs.

What do you mean by Unity 9?

Hey,

Thanks Jeremy.

Unity9 is just logical next step for *desktop* only. So .. if I can create a stable spin of unity7 then perhaps I could request that we re-open dev for unity with community support. it is just a very small seed at this time. It would not require any devs to split time from gnome.

Regards..

[ventrical]

+1

Sourceforge is a possible host for iso files.

And thanks for that link also.

[cariboo]

ventrical, have you had a look at this for creating a LiveCD.

You'll probably have to get the iso hosted on someplace like Github, until you get your version accepted as an official flavour.

[ventrical]

@cariboo



I first have to get a succesful build


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Preparing build environment...
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[sudo] password for ventrical: Build (/usr/bin/uck-gui --wait-before-exit) started at 2017-09-22 16:16:09

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Starting CD remastering on  Fri Sep 22 16:16:28 EDT 2017
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