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Been thinking about this....
meo and clivesay both posted excellent tips about either dropping the remastered KNOPPIX-dsl file onto the pendrive or directing a dsl-boot to the new KNOPPIX file for testing.
In our wk2 shop, I have a dedicated pc with DSL installed for remastering purposes, and the w2k pc for daily work. In my steps to learn dsl-remastering, I created quite a few coasters due to flubbing up the KNOPPIX file remastering.
I kept a copy of the dsl-embedded version installed on my w2k pc to check out the latest rc versions. Now in light of what meo and clivesay had pointed out, I wondered what would happen if I just replaced the KNOPPIX file in the Qemu-embedded version on my w2k pc with the remasted KNOPPIX file. Guess what? It worked!
Now I have a quick and easy way to test the KNOPPIX remasters, as well as demo the "production" verisons to staff without having to live-dsl boot a pc/laptop. I am also able to keep my latest "production" version of dsl-remaster with me, so if I get a call from field-techs about something they want to do on the "release" version, I can bring it up quickly and walk them through it with them.
I realize that prob. most readers don't worry about w2k enviroments, but just in case, thought this could be a helpful alternative to testing remasted KNOPPIX files....Using the 0.6.1 version of Qemu right now but will be trying the newer one very soon and don't see why it shouldn't work the same way.
Hope this comes in helpful to others. Everyone has been very helpful in teaching me the Art of dsl remastering!
--Claus
Hello Y'all remastering fans!
I was looking around in the forum and I saw a question about HOWTO make something like an Mydsl-Opt DSL-remaster. I thought I had posted it before but backtracking in this thread I couldn't find it. At least not one that would work with the newer versions of DSL. So here I post it:
Remastering & Mkmydsl HOWTO for Damn Small Linux
Format the partition with the ext2 filesystem
$sudo mke2fs /dev/hda3
Become root and mount the right partitions
$sudo su
#mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
#mount -rw /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
Make the directories needed
#mkdir /mnt/hda3/source
#mkdir /mnt/hda3/newcd
#mkdir /mnt/hda3/newcd/KNOPPIX
Copy necessary files to directory /newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/boot /mnt/hda3/newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/lost+found /mnt/hda3/newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/index.html /mnt/hda3/newcd
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/Dokument /mnt/hda3/newcd (Docs I want on my disc)
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/optional /mnt/hda3/newcd (The “optional” directory)
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/Bootload/* /mnt/hda3/newcd (Modules I want to load at boottime)
Copy the sources to the right directory
#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hda3/source
#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile /mnt/hda3/source
Go through and copy wanted things to /mnt/hda3/source
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds/* /mnt/hda3/source/etc/skel/.fluxbox
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* /mnt/hda3/source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles
Create the custom compressed image file:
#mkisofs -R /mnt/hda3/source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 >
/mnt/hda3/newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
Create the iso-file as follows:
#cd /mnt/hda3
#mkisofs -no-pad -l -r -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat -hide-rr-moved -o mydsl.iso newcd
Copy the iso-file to the first partition on your harddrive
#cp /mnt/hda3/mydsl.iso /mnt/hda1
Reboot and burn the cd and you are good to go with your brand new remaster
I hope this is of any use to someone.
Have fun,
meo
i have these errors after boot of my dsl 1.1 remaster:
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apm: overridden by ACPI.
insmod: /lib/modules/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: .init_module: No such device
insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.26/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/apm.o: insmod char-major-10-134 failed
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X quits very fast nothing else
if i try startx again it happens the same..
pls help
your heinrich
Try booting with the:
dsl noapm
command
whenever as root I try to mke2fs /dev/hda3, it tells me my filesystem is invalid because it has a size of zero, or it's currently in use?
I'd copy the text here, but I wasn't able to paste into the writer.
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