G-Key Manual
In this page, there are a few things that will be explained here:
- First, a document explaining where to start from, I have no clue about that, is extracting the iso and modifying the files enough or do we need anything more?
- Second, a document about what kind of changes need to be made to add English/Chinese support to the image (and remove French, Dutch and any other not needed languages). I think it should include:
- How to have Chinese as the default language for the initialization phase
- How to have SCIM installed by default
- How to have all the fonts and resource files that are needed to display the menus and the system applications in Chinese
- How to have Chinese help files packages when they exist (e.g. for OOo)
- How to remove the applications we don't want and add those we do want.
- … and probably some more things I am not thinking about right, guys please add what is missing
- Third, how to produce the .iso once the changes are all made.
How to write the IMG back to G-Key
we provide three ways to let you write the img back to g-key: - if you get a DVD iso, you may burn it into a DVD disk, then insert the DVD into a windows machine, there has a application named gdium-installer.exe, click and run it. - you can mount the iso file under any linux distribution, and change into the iso, there has a dir named linux, change into it, run a scripts named gdium-installer.sh with root privilege.
mount -o loop xxxxxxx.iso /path/to/mount
- mount the iso file, and uncompress the img file with gunzip img_200xxxx_16G.raw.gz, it will need a lot of time depends on your machine, later you will have it uncompressed, use
dd if=img_200xxxx_16G.raw of=/dev/sd[a|b|c] bs=4M
How to backup your g-key
- backup you g-key under linux, after you have everything configure well with your g-key, you may backup the whole g-key, if you have problem with it, just write it back, then you will get a well configured system, you may use dd to do it
dd if=/dev/sd[a|b|c] | gzip > xxxxx.img.gz