Wednesday, July 27, 2016

remastersys - Remaster Ubuntu to create LiveCD that has both Unity and GNOME Shell



Ubuntu 11.10 release is just round the corner, and for the first time, I need to remaster the original LiveCD as per my (including most of the colleagues) needs. I'm totally new to remastering Live ISOs and all I know is that I've just "heard" about remastersys which can be used to do this.


Below are the things I'll tweak with original ISO.



  • Add GNOME Shell (3.2) as desktop environment choice, alongside shipped Unity. (most important)

  • Install all restricted Codecs for media playback.

  • Set default theme for GNOME Shell (along with wallpapers, icons and GTK3).

  • Include Chrome and other similar apps with standard installation.

  • Install some handy GNOME Shell extensions.

  • It should still be a LiveCD (DVD in this case).


I'm not bothered about increased size of ISO due to above bloat that I add.


So, these are my needs, I can do all sorts of customizations but don't know how to include that in ISO, and that's where remastering comes into the picture. So where should I start from?


Note: I'm not bound to use only Remastersys, any other similar app will also do for me as long as it accomplishes above requirements.

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