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mjs · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 4

I have searched around on the net and tried to determine how to uncompress the KNOPPIX file for the DSL-N distribution so that I can modify it's contents, but the only way I have found thus far requires booting to the cd and then creating the image. Is it possible to modify the contents without booting to the cd? I have tried mounting it like you mount a ramdisk image using -o loop, but it doesn't work. Ideally, I would like to run a command to uncompress it, then make my changes, then recompress it.

Thanks,
mjs

Juanito · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

Try this:

Uncompress the DSL-N *.iso and 'unpack" the knoppix image

# mkdir /ramdisk/image
# mount /path-to-file/dsl-n-01RC4.iso /ramdisk/image -t iso9660 -o loop,ro
# mkdir /ramdisk/unpack
# mount /ramdisk/image/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX /ramdisk/unpack -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/cloop50

Prepare a place to put the files for the re-mastered knoppix image

# mkdir /ramdisk/source
# mkdir /ramdisk/newcd
# mkdir /ramdisk/newcd/KNOPPIX
# cp -Rp /ramdisk/unpack/* /ramdisk/source
# cp -Rp /ramdisk/unpack/.bash_profile /ramdisk/source

Copy additional files to be added to the new knoppix image

# cp /path-to-file/file /ramdisk/source/path-to-file/file
# etc etc

"Pack" the new knoppix image

# mkisofs -R /ramdisk/source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > ramdisk/newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

piggyg1 · Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 1

Hi! I tried following the instruction on how to mount the KNOPPIX image and I run into a problem.

I am stuck at the line

mount /ramdisk/image/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX /ramdisk/unpack -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/cloop50

and I get the error message

/dev/cloop50: No such file or directory.

I am trying to mount this on Fedora Core 5. Do you know where I can go to go get the cloop50 ?

Juanito · Joined: 11 Sep 2006 Posts: 88 Location: Dubai, U.A.E.

I can't speak for Fedora Core 5 but this line works in both DSL-N and DSL...