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

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Posted: Jan. 10 2007,22:02

No Mikshaw, i dont have dsl installed on my hard drive..i just have the uncompressed KNOPPIX file. If i need some new tools or updates, I make as chroot an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and apt-get install for the new tools I need and I compress and burn the new iso..thats it ! all the system is automaticaly updated, changed with my personnal changes if i want some(via etc/skel/.. for ex.) and added with the appz i need and i have installed as chroot. No need to download and work with a new release. I have never cheked but im pretty sure that some and probably a lot of my files and tools are in a newer release than they are into the last damnsmall release. Anyway, i update some pkgs with debian testing.

mrchips

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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,18:02

I have successfully remastered. But i want to do so by removing firefox. I dont need it and i could do with recovering every MB i can to squeeze back to 50MB.

I assumed i would remove the /usr/local/firefox directory from my 'source' before doing a mkisofs to create the compressed KNOPPIX image. But, if /usr/local/firefox is missing i get

mkisofs: Error: '(NULL_POINTER)' and 'source/rr_moved' have the same Rock Ridge name 'rr_moved'
mkisofs: Unable to sort directory

anyone know what is going on?

meo

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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,18:02

Hi mrchips!

Just remove the directory rr_moved from the source dir and it should work. I've done it after removing firefox. Removing firefox could also be done before copying everything to the source directory. Mikshaw posted this somewhere a while ago: sudo rm -rf /usr/local/{,bin/}firefox and this is what I have done to remove firefox. This will cause some complaints during bootup, but if you check out /etc/init.d/mkunion and delete or comment out the bottom few lines that refer to firefox, there will be no more complaints about firefox during bootup. This you can do after copying everything to the source directory. Open a shell as root and give this command: #beaver source/etc/init.d/mkunion and make the desired changes and save them. OK that's it!

Have fun all remastering fans,
meo

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oznozz

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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,19:20

Hello again,

I've gotten a pretty good customized version working.

I now have a somewhat difficult question :

Is there a way to prevent (or at least significantly obfuscate) hard drive access from the live CD?

I'd like to distribute some customized CDs to high school students as a learning tool, and I really don't want them to be able to intentionally or unintentionally use the disk to trash files on a hard drive.

Thanks,
oznozz

mrchips

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Posted: Jan. 26 2007,18:20

Removing dpkg and apt-get database:
After adding/removing packages i want to remove again the dpkg and apt caches before creating the iso, so as to recover the same back.

is it as simple as removing var/lib/apt and var/lib/dpkg or a bit more to it than than??

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