Just a little note about my previous post. It works if you aim at an iso-file of about 50 MB. If you are aiming higher you either must have a lot of ram or do it another media. Another thing I discovered this week was that making a remaster is pretty good if the intention is to make a usb-install. The usb-install (frugal) will then be remastered from the very beginning.
Have fun all of you, meo
Quote (cbagger01 @ April 25 2004,21:45)
Open a terminal.
Type:
sudo su
and then type
emelfm
An emelfm window will then appear with 'root' authority. You can now move or delete files that only a 'root' user is allowed.
Good Luck.
You can also add either a short cut in the start menu or make the emelfm icon on the desktop open as root.
If you want the desktop icon to open as root. go in to the .xtdesktop folder, click on the emelfm.lnk file and replace the command with sudo /bin/bash -c emelfm.
Or just put the command in you start menu for quick root access in emelfm.I use emelfm quite a bit when remastering. I have several partitions that have "masters" in them, and when working on one, I put it in the right pane, and the live cd is shown in the left pane. Something that needs testing before putting in the master can be copied to the running dsl, and worked with and tested. --- Right now I am running Knoppix 3.4, and learning how to restore. One big difference is that in dsl, we can restore anytime, and backup anytime, and it's done. In Knoppix, the backing up of the /home directory goes on all the time, as you surf the web, etc. the knoppix.img is constantly updated, as long as you booted up with that particular partition's knoppix.img loaded, like this: boot: knoppix home=/dev/hdb7 Also, there is another restoration file, that is not continually updated like knoppix.img. It is "configs.tbz" and one needs to update that when things are added, like desktop icons. I did download and place Firefox 1.0 in the /home directory, and also hacked together an Opera 6.03 "copy-over" from Redhat 9, in another partition on this machine. Both web browsers work well done that way. Without remastering Knoppix 3.4, one can only restore files in the /home directory, so one has to find a way to put what you want in there. Ordinary restorations are much easier in dsl. I am getting a perspective on dsl by looking at the full Knoppix distro, and may soon start remastering it, in addition to the dsl 0.6.2 and 0.8.2 remasters I have now. --- Hello again! This might be a little beside tho point. I had an urge to fool around with hikarunix 0.2 (which is based on DSL 0.8.2) and subsequently made an remaster of it. The full HOWTO follows below:
Remastering HOWTO for DSL 0.8.2 (And Hikarunix 0.2)
Change the keyboard-layout (unless you have a us keyboard) $sudo loadkeys se-latin1 (I have a swedish keyboard) $startx
Format the partition with the ext2 filesystem $sudo su #mount -rw /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 #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 /newcd #cp -Rp /cdrom/boot /mnt/hda3/newcd #cp -Rp /cdrom/autorun.bat /mnt/hda3/newcd #cp -Rp /cdrom/autorun.inf /mnt/hda3/newcd #cp -Rp /cdrom/index.html /mnt/hda3/newcd #cp -Rp /cdrom/logo.jpg /mnt/hda3/newcd #cp -Rp /mnt/hda2/Dokument /mnt/hda3/newcd (Docs I want to have handy)
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/hda2/backgrounds/* /mnt/hda3/source/etc/skel/.fluxbox #cp -Rp /mnt/hda2/styles/* /mnt/hda3/source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles
Copy the iso-file to a partition where you have your favourite cd-burning program #cp /mnt/hda3/mydsl.iso /mnt/hda2
So if you get the urge to remaster this excellent distro for those who like to play (or learn how to) this might be the answer.
Have fun everybody out there, meoHello again everybody! Just a quick note that DSL RAM-Remaster works also with the new 0.9.0 DSL. But I'm truly missing xmms! Can anyone enlighten me how I might get it back (perhaps during the remastering-process)? I would greatly appreciate that, because I like xmms so much.
