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Posted: Nov. 14 2004,01:24 |
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Remastering using Embedded DSL
I did this on a Pentium 4 - 2.7GHz with 512MB ram, running windowsXP
Download the dsl-embedded-[currentversion].zip from the DSL homepage. (My version is 8.4)
Edit the dsl-windows.bat
Change let it use 512MB memory. You'll need a shitload of it, because everything is done there.
| Code Sample | | START qemu.exe -L . -m 512 -hda harddisk -cdrom dsl.iso -boot d -enable-audio -user-net -localtime |
Boot up DSL with the dsl-windows.bat
Wait till you get into the shell and open up a root shell (right mouse button->XShells->Root Access)
All the following code blocks are input commands:
Move into the ramdisk
| Code Sample | | mkdir remaster |
Create a location to put the remaster files.
move into it.
| Code Sample | | mkdir newcd newcd/KNOPPIX source |
Create a few directorys to put stuff in. The "newcd" directory will contain the new files that are put into the new ISO. And the source directory will contain all the files that are compressed into the KNOPPIX file.
| Code Sample | cp -Rp /cdrom/boot newcd
cp -Rp /cdrom/index.html newcd
cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile source
cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* source |
copy the needed files to the right locations. (The last one takes quite a while)
Now you can edit the files in the source directory at will. For example, if you want to change the default runlevel, then you can simply edit the "inittab" file in "etc".
At this moment i'm still unsure to what's the best way to uninstall applications.
After doing all the stuff you wanted to do, go into the "remaster" directory:
| Code Sample | | cd /ramdisk/remaster |
| Code Sample | | mkisofs -R source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX |
Next compress all the needed files into a image file. This could take quite a while, depending on your computer speed, and the size of the image.
(took me about 10 min for a 40MB unpacked image)
| Code Sample | | mkisofs -pad -l -r -J -v -V "NewDSL" -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 |
Now we have a new iso file. Called mydsl.iso
Now we just need to move it from our RamDisk (remember, ramdisk only exists in ram, so it will be gone when you close DSL)
We need a host to move the file to, the computer you're working on looks like a nice target. The easiest way would be to setup a windows share. (share a directory, and give writing permissions)
Now we need to connect to that share from DSL
| Code Sample | | smbclient //computername//sharename |
If done correctly, then it should ask for a password now. If you setup the share to have access from anyone (the easiest thing to do) then you can simply press enter. (you might need to enter your IP address instead of the hostname, sometimes the last time I tried, it didn't work with my hostname, but the IP worked fine)
now put up the iso file:
| Code Sample | | put mydsl.iso |
now you have a new iso file. You could give it a fast test with qemu, to make sure it boots fine, and software you added runs. If that works fine, then you can burn it like you would burn any other DSL iso.
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I hadn't thought of qemu until I checked here yesterday, and since then I have managed to boot several linux iso's, though most need lots of ram.