Other Help Topics :: ReMastering HOWTO for DSL

I also did a remaster using a usb drive.
I had an external usb drive case,and installed a 40gig hard drive in it.
It worked great.

Hi again!

That was nice to hear mark_internet! The methods of remastering DSL is aumenting. I just did a remaster of DSL 1.3 and I thought I had posted this procedure before but I did a backtrack a few weeks ago and I couldn't find it. Since it is very easy and I've done it the last months using DSL-embedded I thought I'd share it with Y'all so here it comes. Get your DSL-embedded up and running and then do the following:

Mount the partition containing what you want to add
#mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

Create the directories needed
#mkdir source newcd newcd/KNOPPIX

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

Copy the things you want to add to the source directory
(I usually just add some styles and backgrounds I want to have)
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds source/etc/skel/.fluxbox
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles

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

Copy the KNOPPIX file found in the newcd directory to where you want it. All you have to do then is to replace the original KNOPPIX file with your own custom made. This way there is no need to make an iso-file and burn it etc. So I guess it's the easiest way of making a remaster manually. Hope this is of any help to someone!

Have fun,
meo

(Edited 2005-07-21)

This is great for adding individual files . . .
Is it similar if you want to add packages?

I'm dying to add g++ and the QT libraries to DSL to make a portable development suite usb key runnable through qemu

so there's the gcc.dsl file, and qt i think i have to get through synaptic

Any tips on how to add those in?

Sincere apoligies to all remastering-fans!

I made some typos and mistakes when I posted the DSL-Embedded remaster HOWTO a while ago. The errors have been corrected and should work without troubles now. I discovered them making a remaster of DSL 1.3.1 today.

Have fun Y'all,
meo

Hi Y'all!

Just a quick note after finally finding this thread (The whole HOWTO section was removed to Other Help Topics for some reason). I made a DSL-Embedded remaster a couple of days ago and it went well. I'm planning to make an apt-get remaster HOWTO but I need some time to get things straight.

Have fun,
meo

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