Hiring Someone to do a Custom Ubuntu Spins
Hi, I'm involved in a start-up which has developed software to run on Ubuntu Linux [1]. We're currently looking to sell "appliance" servers with the software pre-installed. We want to streamline the installation process by building a custom install ISO which uses our required partitioning scheme and installs some additional drivers and software that are not available on the base image. We'd like to hire someone on a contract basis to do this for us. Primarily, we just need someone who can work through the steps here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization based on our requirements. Minimal requirements include having the installer: - Partition drives in a particular configuration - Install specific required packages - Install NVIDIA and CUDA drivers - Create a special user and execution of a scripts to install software as that user. If you're interested or have any questions feel free to send me an email with your CV and some idea of what your rates might be. Cheers, Marcus
On 16-10-13 01:18 PM, Marcus Brubaker via talk wrote:
I'm involved in a start-up which has developed software to run on Ubuntu Linux [1]. We're currently looking to sell "appliance" servers with the software pre-installed. We want to streamline the installation process by building a custom install ISO which uses our required partitioning scheme and installs some additional drivers and software that are not available on the base image.
I don't know how closely your application is tied to Ubuntu. One option you have would be to look at rolling your own ISO using Morphix. I've used it before to create a bootable USB key with the software needed to run a kiosk. -- Cheers! Kevin. http://www.ve3syb.ca/ |"Nerds make the shiny things that distract Owner of Elecraft K2 #2172 | the mouth-breathers, and that's why we're | powerful!" #include <disclaimer/favourite> | --Chris Hardwick
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:55:43PM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 16-10-13 01:18 PM, Marcus Brubaker via talk wrote:
I'm involved in a start-up which has developed software to run on Ubuntu Linux [1]. We're currently looking to sell "appliance" servers with the software pre-installed. We want to streamline the installation process by building a custom install ISO which uses our required partitioning scheme and installs some additional drivers and software that are not available on the base image.
I don't know how closely your application is tied to Ubuntu. One option you have would be to look at rolling your own ISO using Morphix. I've used it before to create a bootable USB key with the software needed to run a kiosk.
Why not just use the official preseed with custom iso option: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization Writing a pressed file that does the partitioning and installs extra packages is not hard. -- Len Sorensen
On 13 October 2016 at 13:18, Marcus Brubaker via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
I'm involved in a start-up which has developed software to run on Ubuntu Linux [1]. We're currently looking to sell "appliance" servers with the software pre-installed. We want to streamline the installation process by building a custom install ISO which uses our required partitioning scheme and installs some additional drivers and software that are not available on the base image.
I'm not really sure if this is a solution but if all of your hardware is the same across your devices, you could simply use "dd" to create a base image from your first working device and then after copying update the files that need to be different between the machines (the primary one being the SSH keys). That's what I did when I had to install the same OS and software across 100 machines.
Hi Marcus, I've done exactly that for Ubuntu before (and am still doing it now). Are you still looking for someone to do that? On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Marcus Brubaker via talk - talk@gtalug.org <> wrote:
Hi,
I'm involved in a start-up which has developed software to run on Ubuntu Linux [1]. We're currently looking to sell "appliance" servers with the software pre-installed. We want to streamline the installation process by building a custom install ISO which uses our required partitioning scheme and installs some additional drivers and software that are not available on the base image.
We'd like to hire someone on a contract basis to do this for us. Primarily, we just need someone who can work through the steps here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization based on our requirements. Minimal requirements include having the installer: - Partition drives in a particular configuration - Install specific required packages - Install NVIDIA and CUDA drivers - Create a special user and execution of a scripts to install software as that user.
If you're interested or have any questions feel free to send me an email with your CV and some idea of what your rates might be.
Cheers, Marcus
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