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Topic: ReMastering HOWTO for DSL, Also for newbies and other enthusiasts

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Claus

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Posted: Feb. 14 2005,14:32

All my attempts at remastering are done within DSL 0.9.2--loading off cdrom. Following meo's guide and as root: sudo su. Only thing I used Windows to do was to burn the iso itself.

Since Windows burned the original dsl iso I had downloaded and it runs just fine, I didn't think that the iso burn to cdr enviroment mattered at all.

Don't have enough RAM (512) to try a RAM-Remaster.

I haven't tried using an earlier/later version of dsl to see if that makes a diff, but I would expect 0.9.2 is ok since it was created ok in the first place.

clivesay

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Posted: Feb. 14 2005,14:37

Claus -

I know that an error while copying is not good. I would make sure you are typing the commands correctly and also, make sure you are remastering on an ext2 partition. If you are trying to remaster on an a fat32, that is most likely your issue.

Chris

Claus

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Posted: Feb. 15 2005,14:18

thanks clivesay--

Before you posted, I tried using the Overclockix LiveCd to boot. I then tried to remaster in that distro and didn't see any copy errors at all this time, seemed to go smooth (careful to use the DSL KNOPPIX version file). However, ended up with same errors again. You may be on the right track. Something could be getting lost on the fat32 partition. It never occurred to me that the remaster-er's are actually running DSL off a HDD install and not just from the livecd.

I'm going to hunt up a old box and try a hdd install to make sure that the partition is better.

I'll let you know how it turns out!

I appreciate your help.

Claus

henk.1955

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Posted: Feb. 15 2005,15:17

i think you can NOT remaster on a fat or vfat partition.
because you can not copy symbolic links to the vfat and some file mode bits a lost.
if vfat is the only type of partition you have, you could try to make a lagre loopfs file, format the loopfils ext2, mount it and use the loopfs to remaster.
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Claus

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Posted: Feb. 16 2005,20:22

henk.1955 and clivesay

I dropped DSL on that hdd and went through the remaster steps again.

Worked like a charm! Good DSL boot up now as a bootcd, and when I pop the cd in an active Windows session, my autorun app comes up and all the Win files/apps are available.

I really appreciate your tips! Got the remaster bug bad now!

Claus

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