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This is HARD! I have 15 years experience as a MS technician, but reconfig dsl is giving me a brain tumor

Probably I have too many preconceived notions of what should happen.

I managed to download and install dsl to hda1 and have even created a dialup connection, installed firefox, all within a few days of seeing it.

But putting it back onto a cd....

I won't give up though. I never thought before that you could surf the net without any virus issues at all!!!!

silicon_intelligence, it's not a tumor.

Try looking at these other posts on remastering from a HD install by noclobber. Also try the search button to look for post similar to what your looking for.

Good luck

Hi silicon_intelligence!

Remastering is not as hard as it might seem. I suggest you look at page 37 in this thread to see how you can put any extensions you want on a cd together with DSL. After that you can use them as you see fit. If any questions arises just get back to this thread!

Have fun remastering this incredible distro (DSL),
meo

Ok, I'm just starting to figure this all out. When you say $sudo mke2fs /dev/hda3 to format a new partition, is there any reason you can't just make the directories on an old partition?

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#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)

For this part, I can just copy all of the files I want into the same place? Like .dsl files and documents all go into that one folder?

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#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds/* /mnt/hda3/source/etc/skel/.fluxbox
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* /mnt/hda3/source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles

What should I be getting out of these folders? Will I have these folders on my windows hard drive? Can I skip this step?

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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

This is where the actual .iso file is made, which is the part I can't do in windows. Could I do all the previous steps in windows, then load DSL, mount hda1, and do these steps?

Hello shui!

The problem is that a remastering won't work on a windows partition because of ownership problems with some of the files. The ownership or files belonging to root (the superuser) can't be preserved on a windows partition. If you had Linux installed and used one of the partitions awailable your idea might have worked.

Have fun,
meo

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