G'day, Distribution is Ubuntu.
I'm attempting to create a second install cd for this week-ends install fest. The students will not have net access during the install fest. If anybody can see a fault in my method please let me know. What I've been doing: I have a list of packages from the Uni that are used in the lab machines. I created a basic ubuntu install. Got the list of packages installed in the basic install. Created a diff of those in the basic install, and the uni install. apt-get install -y -d `cat diff_pkg_list` So I then had the downloaded packages, and hopefully all dependent packages, required to bring the basic install up to the same as a uni lab machine. mkdir extras_cd mkdir extras_cd/pool cp the downloaded packages to pool mkdir extras_cd/dists/hoary/universe/binary-i386/ then used this script (thanks to Matt Palmer) to create some need files: #!/bin/sh PDIR="dists/hoary/universe/binary-i386" dpkg-scanpackages . /dev/null > $PDIR/Packages gzip -c $PDIR/Packages > \ $PDIR/Packages.gz rm md5sum.txt md5sum $(find pool dists -type f ) > md5sum.txt mkisofs -r -J -l \ -publisher "South Coast Linux Users' Group" \ -V "Ubuntu Extras" \ -o ../extras.iso . Burned the iso, added it to repositories of the basic installed ubuntu, then tried to install all and got so many dependencey errors it looked like a christmas tree. If somebody can find what I'm doing wrong, much appreciated. Any ideas greatfully received, Saturday is approaching kinda like an express! Regards, Ashley -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html