Edit content just before ISO creation?

[kalligator]

Is there a way to pause the procedure just before the ISO packaging stage so as to edit the content in the meantime e.g. to add system-wide theme & icons, add a backup of a few .dotfiles etc, then resume the procedure?

[pieroproietti]

You can use the produce flag --scripts

The iso will be not created, but just scripts for it's creations.

You will have in /home/eggs/ovarium the follows scripts:

• bind
• mksquashfs
• mkiso
• ubind

They can used in sequence, to mount the filesystem binded in /home/eggs/ovarium/filesystem.squashfs, create squashed fs in /home/eggs/ovarium/iso/live/filesystem.squashfs, create the iso and umount filesystemfs.

PS: this scripts are always generated - also without the flag --scripts, the diference is just they are not executed - so they can always used to edit the content of the iso.

[kalligator]

I'll probably find a way to mess it up hehehe. I think a flag like dad -p (pause) would be safer for idiots like me. If you find it worthy perhaps you can implement something like that in the future?

[pieroproietti]

If you need just to change just iso, edit the contents in /home/eggs/ovarium/iso.

There are 4 folders:

• boot
• efi
• isolinux
• live

in boot you can change same parameters for grub in the live, example splash.png, theme.cfg all related to grub for iso;

the same in isolinux, but for isolinux live,

And just run mkiso when you finish your configuration.