Mksquashfs edit extracted/casper/filesystem.squashfs -comp xz 10. Compress: rm extracted/casper/filesystem.squashfs Sed -i '/casper/d' extracted/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop 9. Sed -i '/ubiquity/d' extracted/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop To view installed packages by size: dpkg-query -W -showformat = '$ ' > extracted/casper/filesystem.manifestĬp extracted/casper/filesystem.manifest extracted/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop You can use this terminal to run GUI applications too. So make sure you can do everything with only a terminal. But you only have access to the chroot terminal. You can modify this filesystem to meet your needs. The filesystem is now the 'edit' folder inside 'mylivecd' directory. Preparing customization: dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-idĭpkg-divert -local -rename -add /sbin/initctl Run codes in chroot terminal if nothing is specified about which terminal to use. (This is very important, don't mix up these two terminals in anyway.) You can differentiate between these two by comparing the command history. We will call this the chroot terminal and let's open another terminal and run: cd ~/mylivecdĪnd call this the host terminal.

Prepare a chroot environment: xhost + //it will enable you to run GUI applications like synaptic but this will disable the x server access control, so use it at your own risk. Prepare network connection in the temporary system: sudo cp /etc/nf edit/etc/ Sudo unsquashfs mnt/casper/filesystem.squashfs Sudo rsync -exclude =/casper/filesystem.squashfs -a mnt/ extracted Sudo mount -o loop linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit.iso mnt mkdir ~/mylivecdĬp /path_to_the_downloaded_iso_directory/linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit.iso ~/mylivecd Change the name according to the downloaded image.

Linuxmint-19-cinnamon-64bit.iso is used as the base iso image throughout this tutorial. Install the required softwares: sudo aptitude install squashfs-tools genisoimage 2. Red colored text tells you to pay serious attention to itġ.Texts appear after double slash (//) are comments not codes.Some codes are so long that they couldn't end in a single line, watch out.Italic texts means they are technical words/codes.Blue color means, this part of the code needs editing after copy paste.Text with greyed background means warning.Now follow the steps below to make a customized Linux Mint cd/dvd image: Download the image from the official download page of Linux Mint (latest is recommended). This tutorial is all about making a custom Linux Mint iso from a fresh new official dvd image.

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