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

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oznozz

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Posted: Nov. 17 2006,21:32

Appologies if in my haste, I have overlooked something in the 60 pages of posts in this thread...

BUT

I have followed the remastering directions with dsl3.0.1 iso and I have managed to create a lemon. When the system boots, it fails to detect any RAM and therefore fails with a kernel panic because creation of /var/run/utmp fails. I've tried this both with modifications and without modifications of the DSL system on one machine. The DSL that I'm using works fine until I try to remaster it. Any hints about how to fix this problem?

Thanks

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Posted: Nov. 17 2006,22:13

Well oznozz!

To be honest I've never heard or experienced what you describe but if you give me more specifics about your computer, how much ram you have and the size of your swap-partition in particular, I might give you some help.

Have fun,
meo

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oznozz

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Posted: Nov. 18 2006,19:22

It's an Acer laptop bought within the last year. It has 1 Gig of DDR RAM and a 1.7 Ghz Intel Processor (I'm away from it, so I can't give more specific stats). The hard drive is 100 GB split into two ~50 GB partitions, one has Windows, and one has Ubuntu 6.10. There's another small partition for booting. RAM and swap shouldn't be a problem! The vanilla DSL creates a RAM disc of about 800 MB and it reports 1023700kB of RAM detected. I can't figure out how following the instructions verbatim would result in the "no memory" error.

meo

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Posted: Nov. 19 2006,13:24

Hi again!

Sounds kind of weird that it shouldn't work with the remaster. It seems to me that the KNOPPIX-file hasn't been built properly and therefore doesn't boot right. With that amount of ram memory there shouldn't be any need of a special swap-partition on the harddrive. That is usually the problem when the KNOPPIX-file doesn't build properly (the remastering process needs a lot of memory to work; at least a gig) which leads me to another question: How did you go about remastering? Which method did you use? If remastering on a harddrive partition it should be formatted with extended 2 filesystem otherwise problems will occur. So my suggestion is to make the remaster entirely in RAM and se if it works. You'll find the instructions on page 56 in this thread.

Have fun and hope it works out,
meo

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meo

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Posted: Nov. 29 2006,20:50

Hi guys!

Just made a remastering of the newly released DSL 3.1 and it works wonderfully. This might be the best release ever. My sincere compliments to all that have contributed to this release. I'm pondering over a new way of making a remaster and if it works I'll post it ASAP, so stay tuned.

Have fun everyone out there with DSL,
meo

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