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

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charliez

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Posted: Aug. 08 2006,11:42

Hi meo!

When using your steps to remaster and you wanted to inject some mydsl UCI files into the remaster, would you just put them into $source/opt and would the new cd load them automatically or are there additional boot time steps needed?

meo

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Posted: Aug. 09 2006,04:55

Hi charliez!

As I use an usb pendrive I just keep uci- and unc-files that I want loaded right away in a directory called mydsl. Dsl files however are easy to put in a remaster as previously mentioned.

Have fun,
meo

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jimihieu

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Posted: Aug. 09 2006,09:41

hi meo,
you have any latest HOWTO for remaster DSL that was installed on HDD?
thanx

meo

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Posted: Aug. 16 2006,16:28

Hello jimihieu!

Well I have never made a remaster from an harddrive installation. I make remasters directly from the live cd and then usually in RAM instead of using the harddrive at all. But now I have been doing remasters from the live cd copying the contents do directories on the harddrive. That makes it easy to make small changes on a following up remaster since you already have it all copied to the harddrive. This is the latest HOWTO using this method:

Programmers Remastering HOWTO for DSL

Download the following modules to home/dsl
cvs.dsl
flex-bison-libtool.dsl
gnu-utils.dsl
gcc1-with-libs.dsl

Mount the partitions needed
#mount –rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
#mount -rw /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

Create the directories needed
#mkdir /mnt/hda3/source
#mkdir /mnt/hda3/newcd
#mkdir /mnt/hda3/newcd/KNOPPIX

Copy necessary files to the newcd directory
#cp –Rp /cdrom/boot /mnt/hda3/newcd
#cp –Rp /cdrom/lost+found /mnt/hda3/newcd
#cp –Rp /cdrom/index.html /mnt/hda3/newcd

Copy the sources to the proper directory
#cp –Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hda3/source
#cp –Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile /mnt/hda3/source

Go through and copy wanted things to source
#cp –Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds /mnt/hda3/source/etc/skel/.fluxbox
#cp –Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* /mnt/hda3/source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles

Copy the modules to source/home/dsl and install them
#cp cvs.dsl /mnt/hda3/source/home/dsl
#rm cvs.dsl

Follow this procedure with all the modules so they all end up in source/home/dsl

#chroot /mnt/hda3/source
#cd home/dsl

OBS! Make sure there are two hyphens "-" before --same in same-owner. I doesn't look so in the standard firefox browser.

#tar -zxvf cvs.dsl –same-owner -C /
#rm cvs.dsl
#tar -zxvf flex-bison-libtool.dsl –same-owner -C /
#rm flex-bison-libtool.dsl
#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 /mnt/hda3/source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > /mnt/hda3/newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

Create the iso-file as follows
#cd /mnt/hda3
#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

This remaster works very well as far as I know compiling sourcecode.

Have fun everybody,
meo

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meo

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Posted: Aug. 31 2006,20:03

Hello, Y'all!

Just want to mention a cool thing that's possible when making a remaster like the one mentioned in my last post. It's possible to compile program source-code directly into the remaster after adding "gcc1-with-libs.dsl" to the remaster. Just add the source-code to the same place as the dsl-packages added and compile them from there. But check for dependencies before to make it work. I've done it with bcrypt (witch needs zlib to work so I compiled in that one first). I haven't tried any larger programs yet as I don't feel the need but it might work.

Have fun out there in cyberspace,
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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