Remaster to make smaller image
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Remaster to make smaller image
started by: Punknudder
Posted by Punknudder on Mar. 07 2005,02:32
So, I've read and re-read the fine "HOW TO" started be meo, and even found a post or two in that thread that I thought would help, but alas, I'm stumped.My setup is like this:
NEC Versa LX 233 laptop w/ 96 MB system RAM and a 233 Pentium II processor
Frugal (with toram option) install with the image sitting at hda1 (a 53MB patition)
A 133 MB swap partition.
A 2.8 GB Linux partition holding my backup.tar.gz sitting at hda3.
What I'm looking to do is get rid of the following aplications:
Firefox (command #apt-get remove firefox fails, can't find packages,)
flwriter (same apt-get error)
Siag (I stopped trying apt-get at this point)
Xpaint
xZGV
I am not adding any applications, so I kinda figured I could just mount the KNOPPIX cloop file on hda1 and hunt down that stuff by hand and delete it, unmount the file system and have a smaller image to boot into RAM, but so far I've been unsuccesfull.
And so my questions are.....
1) Can I just hunt down and nuke those applications w/out screwing up the rest of the system?
2) If so, how do I get the KNOPPIX image found in hda1/KNOPPIX mounted. (What are the commands?)
3) Once the KNOPPIX cloop file is mounted and the applications removed, can I simply unmount it, and have a bootable image again?
Thanks in advance for any help offered
Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 07 2005,02:39
Not all of the DSL applications are from Debian apt-get, so it is impossible to remove them via apt-get remove xxx1) Yes. Just don't go crazy with deleting the libraries.
2) See the remastering how-to or search the forums for keyword "cloop" and search ALL FORUMS and FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER.
3) You cannot simply mount and unmount the KNOPPIX image and remove files. Then KNOPPIX image is a compressed ISO READ ONLY file. See the remastering how-to for more details.
Posted by Punknudder on Mar. 07 2005,02:44
Thanks cbagger01 Well, the answer to #3 explains why I had such a hard doing that! lol
Awwrightey then, back to the "How To" ....
Man, it's been a long night.
THanks for the help-
Scott