Other Help Topics :: ReMastering HOWTO for DSL

JoeOldendick, Meo & Roberts,

Hi... I'm new (and stink at linux) but have the best intentions to get 'in the game'. At the moment, I'm 'eating like a bird' in preparation for 'sh!#ing like an elephant' on my project.

I, like JoeOldendick, am in the process of making a digital picture frame for my dear mom! And, much like Joe, I'm trying to figure out a few things surrounding 'remastering'.

My question is simply put:

What can you do with 'mkmydsl' that can't be done with Meo's 'remastering how-to's'? And visa-versa?

Any insight into the theoretical differences in these two methods would be greatly appreciated.

Side note /question to JoeOldendick -- would you like to compare notes / be able to answer some questions?

Thanks guys... your committment to DSL is outstanding and greatly appreciated.

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere in this thread... but here's some info:
mkmydsl just remakes the .iso including any mydsl extensions you want to be autoloaded upon cd boot.
remastering takes the whole KNOPPIX image and recreates it - essentially the base dsl image.

Hi all remaster fans!

I just made a remaster of DSL 3.2 RC3 and it seems to work just fine. I used the principles of the HOWTO on page 62 (just omit zlib it is not needed) doing this remaster.

Have fun Y'all,
meo

As far as i undesrtand you meo, as soon as there is a new damnsmall version you make a kind of remaster of it. I try to understand why, because if you have remaster something, after that you have only to make updates, and not start all from the beginning.
I mean, i have remastered a 2.something and im still working with it which is perhaps today a 3. something or maybe a 4.something after updates.

If you have your remaster process automated, at least partially, it's a small matter to apply the same process to future releases of DSL. The "updates" you mentioned would be simpler only if you run DSL as a fully-writable and persistent harddrive install. Remastering DSL is necessary if you want to keep your personal changes to the base system persistent while also keeping up with improvements to DSL on a live cd or frugal system.

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