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Hello everybody!

I promised in my last post that I would post a complete remastering HOWTO so here it comes:

RAM-Remastering HOWTO for DSL

With the newer versions of DSL there also has come new possibilities to make remasters. Personally I made the following type of remaster from a cd. Then I created a mydsl directory containing gnu-utils.unc and gcc1-with-libs.unc (I keep this mydsl dir on my harddrive where DSL looks for it) and booted the cd with the following cheatcodes: norestore and xsetup.

Mount the partitions needed
#mount –rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

Create the directories needed
#mkdir source newcd newcd/KNOPPIX

Copy necessary files to the newcd directory
#cp –Rp /cdrom/boot newcd
#cp –Rp /cdrom/lost+found newcd
#cp –Rp /cdrom/index.html newcd

Copy the sources to the proper directory
#cp –Rp /KNOPPIX/* source
#cp –Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile source

Go through and copy wanted things to source
#cp –Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds source/usr/share/fluxbox/backgrounds
#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

REMOVE the Source dir to gain space and make it work

Create the iso-file as follows
#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 partition where you have your favourite cd-burning program
#cp mydsl.iso /mnt/hda1

This remaster works very well as far as I know compiling sourcecode.

Have fun everybody,
meo

Hi Y'all!

I've made a remastering of DSL 3.4.3 according to a part of the HOWTO above. The only thing that doesn't work as it did before is the changing of styles (at least in fluxbox). Otherwise everything is great.

Have fun out there wherever you are,
meo

Hello Remasteringfans!

I did a remaster of DSL 3.4.4 a few hours ago and it works fine. Now the bootcodes "noicons" and "noswap" can be used without spoiling the torsmo monitor (in DSL 3.4.3 that was not possible). I haven't tried it out so thoroughly up to now but it seems to work fine. It has the same problem though that the previous version had that styles doesn't change the wallpaper but that can be done with the wallpaper program.

As always have fun out there,
meo

Hi remasterfans!

I just did a remaster of the new DSL 4.0 but I had some problems since this version have a different approach to certain functions. It worked allright but not to my satisfaction so I'm using DSL 3.3 which work the way I want it to. DSL 4.0 seems to aim at live-cd users and I prefer to use DSL from a CF card in an PCMCIA adaptor. But I'll explore the structure of DSL 4.0 to see if I can make it work the way I want it to.

As always I hope you have fun,
meo

Hello again remasteringfans!

I've just made a remaster of DSL 4.1RC2 and it works like a charm. There are some differences from previous remasters that has to be taken into consideration but I'll adress that in a later post since I'm kind of in a hurry right now.

As always have fun out there,
meo

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