We all know Ubuntu Unity and
Gnome-shell are sucks and crazy. They think now we are 7 years kids
who love the flash,nice images etc . So I am not going to use Gnome
or Fucking UNITY. Perhaps they are also permanent Windows users lol.
And now trying to ripping off the Windows. So I customised my Ubuntu
12.04 and install KDE. KDE is nice and many distro such as Debian,Red
hat enterprise, OpenSuse, Kubuntu etc use the KDE. If you want to
customize your
ISO just follow this tutorial.
Do you believe that I did not even able
to take all the screenshot when wrote this articles ? Perhaps I can't
and i don't try. I don't think so any power user or pentester will use GNOM 3 or
UNITY. When I installed GNOME-SHELL on Ubuntu 1204 and it is able back
the classic style but still the classic style also sucks but use-able
somehow.
Frankly, I used KDE and Gnome both but
when I installed Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04 it just makes me cry!!
Anyway, If you don't want to install
the KDE,XFCE or other interface over and over whenever you install
the free Linux then follow this tutorial to customize your ISO .
First Install :
sudo apt-get install squashfs-tools
genisoimage
Now we create a
folder for our work:
mkdir kde-linux
Now move or copy
the iso to your working folder:
mv /ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso
and
cd kde-linux
Now we need to
mount the ISO. So first we create a folder:
mkdir mout
Now we mount the
sucks ISO to mnt directory:
mount -o loop
ubuntu-12.04-desktop-i386.iso mout
extract the ISO
into a direcotry:
mkdir extracted rsync --exclude=/casper/filesystem.squashfs -a mout/ extracted
Extracted the
sqashfs filesystem this will take some times, So wait:
unsquashfs mnt/casper/filesystem.squashfs
When extraction
100% then just run the following command simply:
mv squashfs-root edit
What we need now?
Now we chroot for fully customization . But let's do something before
doing it.:
cp /etc/resolv.conf edit/etc/ cp /etc/hosts edit/etc/ mount --bind /dev/ edit/dev
Now Chroot so that you can install anything you want , lol install
some hacking tools too hehe:
chroot edit Anyway, Now we need to mount : mount -t proc none /proc mount -t sysfs none /sys mount -t devpts none /dev/pts
And run blindly:
export HOME=/root export LC_ALL=C
We are almost done
correctly then all things. Now we need :
#dbus-uuidgen > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id dpkg-divert --local --rename --add /sbin/initctl ln -s /bin/true /sbin/initctl
Now we can install anything we want... So let's install KDE first
(kde-plasma-desktop,kde-full,kubuntu-desktop)
first we run :
apt-get update
now lets run:
apt-get
install kde-plasma-desktop
and I get
apt-get install kde-plasma-desktop
Reading package
lists... Done
Building
dependency tree
Reading state
information... Done
E: Unable to
locate package kde-plasma-desktop
So I see the sources.list:
nano /etc/apt/sources.list
and I get only 3 source .
And I quickly copy all the source from installed Ubuntu
::::
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Now copy all the source then paste to your editing sources.list
or you can completely replace the file by “cp” command.
Now run again apt-get update
search:
apt-cache search kde-plasma-desktop
kde-plasma-desktop
- KDE Plasma Desktop and minimal set of applications
apt-get install
kde-plasma-desk
or you can just install kde-full:
apt-get install
kde-full
Sucks , It will download 103 Megabyte. So Let's wait until it finish.
But if you want to kde-full or kubuntu-desktop then it will download
a lot. I prefer the minimal as I just want to leave the Gnome.
Anyway, If you want to install any other software :
apt-get install packagename such as
apt-get install vlc
Now we installed all necessary and it is time to build the ISO. Just
we need to remove everything what created :
rm -rf /tmp/* ~/.bash_history rm /etc/hosts rm /etc/resolv.conf rm /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
dpkg-divert --rename --remove /sbin/initctl
So now we need to umount what whatever we mounted .
umount /proc umount /sys umount /dev/pts exit sudo umount edit/dev
Now the real things blindly do:
chmod +w extracted/casper/filesystem.manifest chroot edit dpkg-query -W --showformat='${Package} ${Version}\n' > extracted/casper/filesystem.manifest cp extract-cd/casper/filesystem.manifest extract-cd/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop sed -i '/ubiquity/d' extracted/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop sed -i '/casper/d' extracted/casper/filesystem.manifest-desktop
Now we compress the filesystems :
mksquashfs edit extracted/casper/filesystem.squashfs (It will take some time)
We need to update the size otherwise it will not match the correct
installation when installing:
printf $(sudo du -sx --block-size=1 edit | cut -f1) > extracted/casper/filesystem.size
Now :
cd extracted
rm md5sum.txt
find -type f -print0 | sudo xargs -0 md5sum | grep -v isolinux/boot.cat | sudo tee md5sum.txt
We are alomost done :
mkisofs -D -r -V "$IMAGE_NAME" -cache-inodes -J -l -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o ../your-new-linux-name.iso .
Now just burn the ISO into a blank DVD and Enjoy.
I say Good Bye UNITY AND GNOME !!!! You made the power users crazy.
Try to develop it soon.
