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How to change ubiquity release name

Asked by Sayantan Das

How can I change the release name in ubiquity installer ? ( where it says "Try Ubuntu" and "Install Ubuntu"). I am not able to find .disk/info file on the chrooted file system which contains the information. Is there any other way around? or am i missing something?

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Best Wolf Geldmacher (wolf-womaro) said : 		#1

> How can I change the release name in ubiquity installer ?
Can't really answer that - haven't played around with ubiquity lately.

> I am not able to find .disk/info file on the chrooted file system which contains the information.
That I can answer: It's not there. The .disk/info file is only accessible outside the chroot environment.
It resides in the top level directory of the ISO FS.

> Is there any other way around? or am i missing something?
If you need to modify the file you will need to do it outside the chroot environment. Have a look at the
customize_iso script - this gets run after the chrooted session has finished and has access to the full ISO FS.

Note that you will have to resort to the command line (i.e. uck-remaster) to specify a preexisting
customization-scripts directory - uck-gui replaces it every time it is called.

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Sayantan Das (sayantan13) said : 		#2

Thanks. I think I found it. Hopefully it will work.

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Sayantan Das (sayantan13) said : 		#3

Thanks Wolf Geldmacher, that solved my question.

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Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano) said : 		#4

hi, could you post your solution for further reference?
thank you!

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Sayantan Das (sayantan13) said : 		#5

Sure!
There are two solutions to this.
1. Once the .iso file is mounted, go into the folder $HOME/tmp/remaster-iso/.disk . There, you will find the file named info which you can edit . That changed name would be the name of your distribution and would appear everywhere in ubiquity by default.

2. Use ISO Master to edit the .disk/info file before starting uck. Solution given to me at askubuntu.com : http://askubuntu.com/questions/43942/how-to-change-ubiquity-release-name/43958#43958

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Sayantan Das (sayantan13) said : 		#6

Thanks Wolf Geldmacher, that solved my question.