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Customizing Ubuntu Desktop CD

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Brief overview of the process
==Brief overview of the process==
An extremely general picture is: unpack stuff from CD, add our packages, pack it all back. Now a little more detail on each part.
* The whole filesystem of the Ubuntu that will run in the Live session is packed into a single file on the CD. This file is <code>/casper/filesystem.squashfs</code> and one needs the <code>squashfs</code> kernel module to work with such filesystemfilesystems.
* One needs to prepare packages (.deb files) that are to be added to the system. These packages may have dependencies that also need to be downloaded beforehand.
* The final CD image may turn up to be more than 700MB after we add our stuff. So some sacrificing of other useless contents might be needed after we add our packages.

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