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Mineeme401 give it a shot anyway. You never know, it might just work. Just don't use the "toram" option when you boot. I did and the cpu on my box just went ballistic. So give it a try!

Best wishes,
meo

My 6.3 remaster works like a charm. I use it as my master and when ready for a trial i just make an iso (knoppix) then using xp and ultra iso i just switch the knoppix file before burning the disk. so far so good.
The only terminal commenad i use is

mkisofs -R /mnt/hda3/source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > /mnt/hda3/newcd/KNOPPIX1..2..or 3 (i keep my version)

*HELP*Anyone knows how to have emelfm copy file with the same level of permission as the terminal. Can we set the su command permanently? sometimes it does not let me copy files and i have to use the terminal. Which is much longer!!!!!

Open a terminal.

Type:

sudo su

and then type

emelfm

An emelfm window will then appear with 'root' authority. You can now move or delete files that only a 'root' user is allowed.

Good Luck.

hey thanks very much! Much easier then the text mode in terminal.

Since this topic seems to gain a lot of interest I would like to add complete instructions on HOWTO remaster on an external USB-drive:

Remastering HOWTO for Damn Small Linux ( USB Zip-Drive)

Change the keyboard-layout (unless you have a us-keyboard)
$sudo loadkeys se-latin1
$startx

Format the zip-disc with ext2 filesystem
$sudo mke2fs /dev/sda4

Become root and mount the right partition
$sudo su
#mount -rw /dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4

Make the directories needed
#mkdir /mnt/sda4/source
#mkdir /mnt/sda4/newcd
#mkdir /mnt/sda4/newcd/KNOPPIX

Copy necessary files to directory /newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/autorun.bat /mnt/sda4/newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/autorun.inf /mnt/sda4/newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/index.html /mnt/sda4/newcd

Copy files to directory /newcd/KNOPPIX
#cp -Rp /cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.cat /mnt/sda4/newcd/KNOPPIX
#cp -Rp /cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img /mnt/sda4/newcd/KNOPPIX

Copy the sources to the right directory
#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/sda4/source
#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile /mnt/sda4/source

Go through and copy wanted things to /mnt/hda3/source
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/Docs/* /mnt/sda4/source/home/damnsmall
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* /mnt/sda4/source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles

Create the custom compressed image file:
#mkisofs -R /mnt/sda4/source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > /mnt/sda4/newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

Create the iso-file as follows:
#cd /mnt/sda4
#mkisofs -r -J -b KNOPPIX/boot.img -c KNOPPIX/boot.cat -o zipdsl.iso newcd

Copy the iso-file to the first partition on the HD (Or where you have a cd-burning prog.)
#cp /mnt/sda4/zipdsl.iso /mnt/hda1

Finished! Just burn it!

As you can see the USB-drive turns up as sda4. Furthermore I have swedish keyboard as you can see. I keep the files I want to add in the Docs and styles directories on hda1. That makes it easy for me to remaster as soon as a new version appears. Hope this was of some interest!

Have fun y'all,
meo

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