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

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meo

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Posted: May 05 2005,11:06

Hello everybody!

I just made a remaster of DSL 1.1 and all went well. Here I post the HOWTO (without typos I hope!?):

DSL RAM-Remaster HOWTO

Mount the partition where you have stored the files you want to add

#mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 (Here I have stored files I want to add)

Make the directories needed

#mkdir source newcd newcd/KNOPPIX

Copy necessary files to directory /newcd

#cp -Rp /cdrom/boot newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/lost+found newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/index.html newcd

Copy the sources to the right directory

#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* source
#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile source

Go through and copy wanted things to source

#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds source/etc/skel/.fluxbox
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles

Create the custom compressed image file:

#mkisofs -R source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

Then I had to remove the source-dir to gain space and make it work

Create the iso-file as follows:

#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

Copy the iso-file to the partition where you have your favourite cd-burning program

#cp mydsl.iso /mnt/hda1 (Here I have my favourite cd-burning program)

OK that's all for now, have fun Y'all,
meo

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Egroc
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Posted: May 05 2005,14:24

Hi!, I'm trying to remaster the DSL Linux 1.0.1 and I reading de HOWTO but 'isolinux/isolinux.bin' insn't in my DSL system. The /cdrom folder in root folder don't have anything, I heve to mount cd-filesystem in it?

What's wrong? There are a 1.1 version? Where?

Thanks

Egroc
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Posted: May 05 2005,15:03

Sorry, I was testing de dsl-1.0.1-syslinux I now go try 1.1 but, what is syslinux?

meo

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Posted: May 08 2005,12:43

Egroc!

"Robert put together a SysLinux version of 0.9.1. You folks who have older hardware which isn't compatible with IsoLinux can now boot the latest version of DSL from a CD like everyone else."

This is a quote from notes-section on the DSL-website explaining your question.

Have fun,
meo

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"All that is very well," answered Candide, "but let us cultivate our garden." - Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire

meo

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Posted: May 10 2005,11:15

Hi all you remastering fans!

I just thought I would post a HOWTO on probably the easiest way to ramaster. I felt compelled to come up with something since the last version of dsl-embedded has a feature that I want. Usually I just make a remaster of DSL and switch the original KNOPPIX-file for my own remastered one and suddenly I have a remastered dsl-embedded. But since this particuar feature mentioned abowe just can be found in the most rescent of version 1.1 of dsl-embedded (dated the sixth this month). I had to find another way. So here it comes:

DSL-Embedded Ram-Remaster

Boot from cd: dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1 qemu frugal xsetup
( I have to do like this since my bios doesn't support booting from usb)

Open up the Root Access Xshell and issue the following commands:

#mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

#mkdir source newcd newcd/KNOPPIX

#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* source

#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile source

Copy what you want to the source-dir

#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds source/etc/skel/.fluxbox

#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles

Create the custom compressed image file:

#mkisofs -R source | create_compressed_ fs – 65536 > newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

Copy the remastered KNOPPIX-file to a place where you want it. Then all you have to do is to swap it for the original. This will work as a remaster anyway you choose to use it. As embedded in windows or whatever.

I have an Embedded-dir on hda1 to where I unzip dsl-embedded first. Then I just delete the original KNOPPIX-file and making the remaster above I copy the remastered KNOPPIX-file directly to this directory. All I have to do then is to copy everything to a newly formatted usb-drive and I'm good to go with my newly remastered dsl-embedded anyway I want to use it.

Have fun Y'all with this remarcable useful linux distro,
sincerely yours meo

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"All that is very well," answered Candide, "but let us cultivate our garden." - Francois-Marie Arouet Voltaire

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