Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
 

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: DSL from scratch?< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
bugmenot Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 10
Joined: Oct. 2005
Posted: April 28 2006,17:24 QUOTE
I have checked the DSLwiki and the FAQ and the forums but have yet to find out how to make a DSL iso from scratch.  Is it even possible?

I've been able to remaster the DSL isos but remastering only gets me so far and seems to cause problems when there are files not covered by dpkg.

Is there some cvs repository with all of the iso creation scripts?  or is there a documentation page on creating an iso from scratch?

thank you very much for your time.
Back to top
Profile PM 
mikshaw Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4856
Joined: July 2004
Posted: April 28 2006,17:49 QUOTE
As far as I know, John spent much time remastering Knoppix manually.  If you want to create a DSL from scratch, I'd check out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ and http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Category:Remastering_Knoppix

--------------
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
Back to top
Profile PM WEB 
bugmenot Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 10
Joined: Oct. 2005
Posted: April 28 2006,18:10 QUOTE
John spent much time remastering Knoppix manually

ah.  this answers my questions.  thank you.
Back to top
Profile PM 
roberts Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4983
Joined: Oct. 2003
Posted: April 28 2006,18:37 QUOTE
Actually John began with remastering knx, which was a stripped down Knoppix v3.1.  Since then I have propagated newer versions of DSL using DSL as a template to move forward. It is quite difficult to try to maintain Debian compatibility. Even more so the the new DSL-N. In order to get size down, Debian rules and package management must be broken. Honoring their dependencies would result in a much larger system. Wish Debian was finer grained that presently is.
Back to top
Profile PM WEB 
3 replies since April 28 2006,17:24 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

  		reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: DSL from scratch?

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code