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Posted: Oct. 04 2004,19:35 QUOTE

Stoneguy!

OK first things first. I would think that you can use a linux partition thar you already have. It should be in ext2 fs (linux native) but maybe it will work with ext3 to. When it comes to copying the mydsl.iso to hda1 yuo're quite right, it's to be able to use my cd-burning program on hda1 (windows). I haven't had any luck with burning under DSL so the easiest way is to copy it to hda1. About the modules I can just tell you what I do. I put modules I want to be able to load from the mydsl-menu in the root of the cd. Modules I want to have handy i put in the options directory. I personally prefer the uci files when available since they seem to consume less ram. OK hope this was of any help to you.

Here comes the new remaster HOWTO for the 0.8.2 DSL!

Remastering & Mkmydsl HOWTO for DSL

Change the keyboard-layout (unless you have a us keyboard)

$sudo loadkeys se-latin1   (I have a swedish keyboard-layout)
$startx

Format the partition with the ext2 filesystem

$sudo mke2fs /dev/hda3

Become root and mount the right partition

$sudo su
#mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
#mount -rw /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

Make the directories needed

#mkdir /mnt/hda3/source
#mkdir /mnt/hda3/newcd
#mkdir /mnt/hda3/newcd/KNOPPIX

Copy necessary files to directory /newcd

#cp -Rp /cdrom/boot /mnt/hda3/newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/lost+found /mnt/hda3/newcd
#cp -Rp /cdrom/index.html /mnt/hda3/newcd
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/Dokument /mnt/hda3/newcd    (Docs I want on my disc)
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/optional /mnt/hda3/newcd        (The ?optional? directory)
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/Bootload/* /mnt/hda3/newcd    (Modules I want to load at boottime)

Copy the sources to the right directory

#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hda3/source
#cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile /mnt/hda3/source

Go through and copy wanted things to /mnt/hda3/source

#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds/ /mnt/hda3/source/etc/skel/.fluxbox
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* /mnt/hda3/source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/Skins/* /mnt/hda3/source/etc/skel/.xmms/Skins

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 first partition on your harddrive

#cp /mnt/hda3/mydsl.iso /mnt/hda1

Finally just a note why I have made some changes. It just wasn't working to do the remaster the same way with the 0.8.2 version as the 0.8.1.1 version. I don't know why, i just work by the trial and error method and finally it worked.

Have fun everybody,
meo


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Posted: Oct. 05 2004,06:06 QUOTE

Good thread.

Just an idle thought (one of many)
Has anyone tried a remaster in ram, and if so how much would you need ?

Have a gig here and it would be so slick to reburn without hd access.
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Posted: Oct. 05 2004,19:42 QUOTE

Hasty!

It's worth a try, so go for it! I have tried sucessfully doing it on a 250 external zip-drive and 256 usb-drive but I only have 256 MB of ram so I'm unable to try it, but if you do let us know the results in this thread.

Have fun,
meo


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Posted: Oct. 06 2004,12:26 QUOTE

hasty, it depends on how much you want to change and add.  I've remastered in ram with only 256 megs, but only changing the background image and a few minor changes.  Then I added the /optional directory to the CD as a multisession step.  It definately can be done
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Posted: Oct. 11 2004,07:23 QUOTE

Hi,

I created some scripts to remaster 0.8.2 based on the post above you can find it over here: Remasterinfo
You can simply boot from a DSL cd, use mydsl to install all the apps you want, run the scripts and you're done.
The scripts asume you have a hda5

p.s. I made a few changes compared to the original post to make sure the home dir of dsl is included as well.
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