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Dapper was already good before it was a release candidate. I wanted to contribute. My installation was Edgy, but now I've got Feisty.

Objectives

• Contribute to Kubuntu, with a focus on security, documentation, examples, process automation and Python;
  • Security:
    • Original source availability is great; but automated, on-demand source re-extraction may improve responsiveness to security concerns, such as to show a client whether and how their system has or has not been compromised. This of course might help little if the problem is a corrupt BIOS whose state cannot be reversed... (comments welcome, BTW.)

• Work with scripting that enables further automation of the work involved in making custom Live/Install ISOs:

  • Adept > Interface (I/O) > burned DVD;

• Use SVG to visualise various aspects of project work;
• Apply concepts documented by Edward Tufte;
• Earn money, get clients, introduce them to Kubuntu (probably not in that order);

• Develop and promote arguments for an Adept ISO image creator enhancement;

Method

• how about via subversion? http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/edu/kdissert/

• http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/subversion/

• Follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveCDCustomizationHowTo

Commands

• Downloaded dapper-live-i386.iso using KTorrent to /media/hda2/local/custom-dapper-6.04-dvd/
• sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/swap bs=1M count=5000
  • This seems to have done the business on hda1:

Filesystem             Size   Used  Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1               11G   9.8G    92M 100% /
varrun                 248M   111k   248M   1% /var/run
varlock                248M   4.1k   248M   1% /var/lock
udev                   248M   123k   248M   1% /dev
devshm                 248M      0   248M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2               37G   7.4G    28G  22% /media/hda2
/dev/hda4               11G   1.4G   8.5G  14% /media/hda4

• # Note: for this set-up, a better command might have been: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/hda2/tmp/swap bs=1M count=5000

• sudo mkswap /tmp/swap
• sudo swapon /tmp/swap
• sudo apt-get install cloop-utils mkisofs
• echo "Kernel version is" $(dpkg-query -W --showformat '${Version}' linux-image-$(uname -r))
• export LC_ALL=C
• cd /media/hda2/local/custom-dapper-6.04-dvd/
• mkdir mnt
• sudo mount dapper-live-i386.iso mnt -o loop