Notes on remastering an Ubuntu CD

Why would you want to do this?

I want to take the Hoary CD, remove all the graphical stuff, install a preseed ("answers") file for the installer, add some components from universe, and have a nice neat firewall-on-a-CD.

Procedure

Copy the CD to your hard drive. Important: Remember there is a folder called .disk in the root of the CD, which you will miss copying if you use 'cp /cdrom/*', as bash(1) will expand it without the dotfile.

Changing the logo

You can replace the splash screen (in isolinux/) with a LSS-format file; the best way is to start with a GIF and read the syslinux splash screen HOWTO.