refactoring motd

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: refactoring motd
started by: colinbes

Posted by colinbes on Oct. 20 2006,02:19

Must be doing something wrong but it totally escapes me.

I am wanting to add some additional text to mtod message on DSL startup (additional waver etc) so decided to try hand at refactoring.

I have a small dev system consisting of embedded pc with frugal install on hard disk and compact flash (also frugal install) and am able to boot with either of these.

I booted from hard disk and copied contents of /KNOPPIX/* to source directory on spare partition on hard disk. I then created new compressed KNOPPIX using
mkisofs -R source | create_compressed_fs – 65536 > newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

I then mounted my cf cards hdc1 partition and replaced /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX with this new custom compressed image file.

But during boot the original motd still comes up and when viewing /etc/motd I still see original file and not my modified file.

Any ideas/suggestions as I am sure this should work but am obviously not seeing the wood for the trees.

Colin

Posted by colinbes on Oct. 23 2006,00:16

I found two motd's. One under /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX compressed file and one under startup filesystem minirt24.gz

Updating one in minirt24.gz solved the problem and I now have my additional waver.