Article Number: 000152096
This article provides information about how to create a Dell Ubuntu Linux image for your Dell PC.
This article takes you through how to create a Dell Ubuntu image using open-source content. It is a how to guide that has been on our community site for some time.
The Dell Linux Engineering team publishes the open-source content that is overlaid and used in the Dell factory for installation. You can generate an image that emulates the open-source portions of the Dell factory process. This is because the original live filesystem from the Ubuntu media will be used.
The benefits of using an image like this is that you will get the Dell customizations applied on top of your standard Ubuntu image.
To start out, you will need the following.
After installing the tool, you will find it located in System->Administration menu.
If you run the tool on a computer that did not ship with Ubuntu on it, it will offer to run in BTO Image Builder Mode.
If this is factory shipped computer then start the tool like this # dell-recovery-media --builder
The first question will be about what to use for the base media.
Any of the following are valid base targets:
You will need a copy of the Dell factory content.
If there is any support by Dell for this Operating System (OS) version, you will see it in the list of tags. If it is not supported yet, then use the origin/master tag.
Next you can add in the additional overlay packages. As this is an advanced feature, we recommend you get your media working first, without adding in these types of packages.
The last question asks how do you want the media to be generated? Either way an ISO image is created, but you can optionally burn it to a USB stick or writable DVD.
The summary page displays the content that you selected, and lets you set the version number.
Desktops & All-in-Ones, Laptops, Inspiron, Latitude, Vostro, XPS, Fixed Workstations
21 Feb 2021
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