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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 16 2006,07:10

Hello gatherer!

Just add /home/dsl/.mozilla to the filetool.lst and make a backup. Your bookmarks will then be saved and restored when you boot up again. Personally I keep a backup file on my USB-drive and one on my harddisk just in case something happens.

Have fun,
meo

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meo

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Posted: May 16 2006,10:15

Hello guys!

Just a quick note. I just made a programming remaster of the new DSL 2.4 adding gimp and k3b also and it worked nice. There doesn't seem to be a conflict between tcc and gcc.

As always have fun out there,
meo

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

johncc

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Posted: May 18 2006,01:44

Hello meo et. al.,

I have been trying this for a while and have a few questions.

1) Is the procedure from post #1 in this thread [still] accurate, since 2004? Or, perhaps it has been edited in place to incorporated changes on 50 pages of subsequent discussion?

2) Once I chroot I no longer can get to the internet to apt-get, etc -- nor even ping. I even tried the "mount /proc" and "mount /dev" steps, though they disappeared in later version of the procedure that I saw somewhere around page 37.

3) I put some stuff in source/home/dsl before I created the KNOPPIX file from it. But in the resulting LiveCD that I boot up, it was not there.

4) The ISO file prior to burning was about 72 meg. I tried to use the "Install to PenDrive" tool to put it on a 128mb stick, but it ran out of space. I guess I'm missing some math somewhere

I think I sort of understand (3) and (4), but I'm really more curious about (1) and (2)

Thanks!
John

meo

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Posted: May 18 2006,09:36

Hi johncc!

The old remastering process doesn't work with the more resent versions of DSL. To make the internet connection work right off the bat I now make the whole remastering process in RAM. I have only 256 MB of RAM so I have made a swap-partition that is 2 GB. This kind of remastering takes a lot of space.If you want something in home/dsl after remastering it should go in etc/skel. Here comes the HOWTO I mainly use:

Apt-Get Ram-Remastering HOWTO for DSL
Making a remaster suitable for programming

Download the following modules to home/dsl
dsl-dpkg.dsl
gnu-utils.dsl
gcc1-with-libs.dsl

Mount the partitions needed
#mount –rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

Create the directories needed
#mkdir source newcd newcd/KNOPPIX

Copy necessary files to the newcd directory
#cp –Rp /cdrom/boot newcd
#cp –Rp /cdrom/lost+found newcd
#cp –Rp /cdrom/index.html newcd

Copy the sources to the proper 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

Copy dsl-dpkg to source/home/dsl and install
#cp dsl-dpkg.dsl source/home/dsl
#rm dsl-dpkg.dsl
#chroot source
#cd home/dsl
#tar -zxvf dsl-dpkg.dsl –same-owner -C /
#rm dsl-dpkg.dsl

(no need to edit source/etc/apt/sources.list; just go with oldstable )
#apt-get update
#apt-get install emacs21
#apt-get clean
#tar -zxvf gnu-utils.dsl –same-owner -C /
#rm gnu-utils.dsl
#tar -zxvf gcc1-with-libs.dsl –same-owner -C /
#rm gcc1-with-libs.dsl
#exit

Create the custom compressed image file
#mkisofs –R source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

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

Of course you might want to add other dsl-files the same way. I have added gimp-1.2.dsl, k3b.dsl and skype.tar.gz also and they all work as far as I can tell. I hope this answers your questions otherwise get back to this thread and I will try to help.

As always have fun,
meo

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

johncc

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Posted: May 18 2006,13:53

Thanks for your reply, but if your internet connection (like mine) does NOT work after you chroot, why does your procedure include:

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#chroot source
...
#apt-get update
#apt-get install emacs21
#apt-get clean

For me the apt-get update would not work at this point, since I have no network connectivity. I would have had to have gotten the emacs21.deb file earlier, copied it over to home/dsl with the gcc dsl stuff, and then "dpkg install emacs21...deb".

Since I wrote last, I did succeed in doing just that (with a debian distcc package).

Turns out the main problem I was having is that the "Create a Pendrive" menu tool will create the bootable flashdrive nicely from a user-specified ISO file, but it only creates a (hardcoded) 50mb partition to hold it. For my immediate purposes I just hacked the script to make a 90mb partition, and it then worked.

Now I have a compiler farm in my pocket! (distcc.samba.org)

Thanks!
John

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