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

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Rifey

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Posted: April 27 2005,04:01

Thansk Meo!

The problem was in that for remastering need use ext2 file system. In my question http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=5650 , henk.1955 (thanks!) has explained me. Therefore to not convert partition I have use:

#dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/disk.img bs=1M count=300
#mke2fs /mnt/hda1/disk.img
#mount /mnt/hda1/disk.img /mnt/test -o loop

Next:

#cp –Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/test/source
#cp –Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile /mnt/test/source

As I the beginner in Linux I have made so (though I am assured on 99,999999 % that it incorrectly):
#cp -Rp /etc/* /mnt/test/source
#cp -Rp /ramdisk/* /mnt/test/source
#cp -Rp /etc/* /mnt/test/source

Create:
#mkisofs –R /mnt/test/source | create_compressed_fs 65536 >
/mnt/hda1/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

All ok.

Booting from Hda1 with parameters:

default 0
timeout 20
title DSLinux fromhda1 "bla-bla"
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/isolinux/linux24 dsl base toram vga=788 xmodule=vesa lang=us nomce noapic qemu quilet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix frugal init=/etc/init ramdisk_size=100000 nodhcp
initrd /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
boot

system message:
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Coping DSL image to ramdisk... Please patient.
Warning: Changing to /cdrom2 failed.
Creating /ramdisk (dinamic size=92964) on shared memory...Done.
Creating directories and symlinks on ramdisk.../linuxrc: cannot create /var/lib/samba/unexpected.tdb : read-only file system
VFS: Mounted root (vfat filesystem) readonly.
Unmounting old root
Trying to free ramdisk memory ... okay
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel.
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At removal of parameter init=/etc/init nothing varies: (

If unpack minirt24.gz and mount minirt24, in directory /etc/init contains:
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# linuxrc will configure the ramdisk system, anc then copy a static
# init from CD to ramdisk, after finishing the autoconfiguration.
/linuxrc

# Call the real init now
exec /etc/init "$@" </dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1
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How I am am prompted with intuition, probably problem here? But what to correct?

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Yours faithfully Rifey.

dslremaster
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Posted: April 27 2005,23:49

Meo, which version did you remaster with?

I get the feeling this part is not correct for me:

#mkisofs -no-pad -l -r -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b
boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat -hide-rr-moved -o mydsl.iso newcd

Can you please decipher the above so I can get a better understanding?

Rapidweather Offline

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Posted: April 28 2005,02:06

Just a side note here. When you determine the correct remastering command lines that suit your situuation, be sure and write a step by step and save it in your remaster. That way, when you use your remaster to make another, you can copy and paste the command lines in a terminal and make the process easier, and more accurate. I know a lot of you stay up late working on remasters, and can benefit from a nice copy and paste setup. I myself have a sub directory called "keepers", where I put the file "remaster_command" (just a name) that has what I use.
I do put the lines on cards, but that is a lot of work to copy them each time.

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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html

meo

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Posted: April 28 2005,13:32

dslremaster!

I have used this way of remastering with all the latest releases of DSL including 1.0.1. If you do a backtrack in this thread you will find a point where there was a change in making the final iso-file. I got help from somebody (don't remember who) and I really can't explain that much about it. Just the obvious about how it works. Hope things work out for you!

OK have fun Y'all out there,
meo

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clivesay

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Posted: April 28 2005,14:00

I normally don't like to post links from other forums to here but maybe this is a good time to do it. I have been remastering the filesystems of Feather and DSL for about a year. I started with Feather but now do all my remastering in DSL. Below I have posted a remastering howto I put together in the Feather forum. I put this together early in my remastering learning curve so I am sure it can be simplified from what I did. At that time I wasn't as comfortable with the shell as I am now so I did everything from X. Keep in mind that you can also just go to the Knoppix site and use their remastering howto for Knoppix 3.4 for changing the base filesystem.

I hope this helps you.

BTW - Listen to RapidWeather concerning the commands. It is very easy to make a typo in the mkisofs commands. I created little bash scripts for compression and iso creation so I wouldn't have to type them all the time.

My Remaster Howto

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