Friday 29 October 2021

Supporting 'impish' releases

Now that Canonical has released Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) you can use my latest release of ‘isorespin.sh‘ to respin Ubuntu ISOs:

and Lubuntu ISOs:

as well as the other supported flavours but remember to install the additional package 'zstd' before respinning as this release uses a new compression tool.

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5 comments:

CayoBuay said...

First off, thanks for building this. I just recently acquired a Compute Stick and wanted to put Linux on it to use a mobile computer for travels whenever we can again or at least to have something to play with in the living room.

What's with all the random text at the end of the script?

In my editor it comes up with 43954 lines of code, of which is set as follows:

Looks like the actual script ends at line 4152 but then between lines 4251 and 43954 that is just a bunch of what appears to be garbage but it could be a secure has or something important. Wanted to bring this up before I run this just in case.

```
4150 UPDATE_ISO_PACKAGES
4151 SPIN_ISO
4152 exit 0
4153 UEsDBBQAAAAIACuOjVI1if5DMwEAADkCAAARABwAaXNvcmVzcGluLm1kNXN1bXNVVAkAAwJNdWBv
4154 kEhhdXgLAAEEAAAAAAQAAAAAfZExbiMxDEV7n2IuMAZFiZJYb51y64AUSewAdmyM7WyOHyFbpFgj
4155 vf7Te1LlgKDIxKkEklIPDsQ8EoBk4GU5bW8339+3t+Ptz6EzdtJK4lHLPFa5pRokCuaE1pflcTW5
[...]
43950 10YOAGdydWIvYm9vdGlhMzIuZWZpVVQFAAN1iEhhdXgLAAEEAAAAAAQAAAAAUEsBAh4DFAAAAAgA
43951 Nrg0UwdpIKwrpAYAAKAOABEAGAAAAAAAAAAAAKSBTusUAGdydWJfYm9vdGlhMzIuZWZpVVQFAAM3
43952 hkhhdXgLAAEEAAAAAAQAAAAAUEsBAh4DFAAAAAgAMrg0UySh3nElpAYAAKAOABAAGAAAAAAAAAAA
43953 AKSBxI8bAGVmaV9ib290aWEzMi5lZmlVVAUAAzCGSGF1eAsAAQQAAAAABAAAAABQSwUGAAAAAA8B
43954 DwGVZAAAMzQiAAAA
```

CayoBuay said...

ps.. I added the numbers at the start of the lines for reference, those are not in the code.. (4150-4153, [...], 43950-43954.

CayoBuay said...

Also, can this be ran on a Mac or is this strictly able to run on Linux?

Linuxium said...

The script can add GRUB's 32-bit bootloader so these files are added to the script (encoded using 'base64') so they don't have to be downloaded each time the scipt is run. Look for 'base64' in the script if you want a better understanding.

Linuxium said...

I've never tried but probably not as I'm not sure all the Linux commands are provided in the Unix base Mac OS uses and even then whether the syntax/options are the same.

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