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difficulty with remastering knoppix
Hello all...
I am new to the forums. I have come here because I am starting to drive myself mental in my attempts to remaster knoppix.
I am to create a remastered live cd of knoppix.
I want to change the default windows manager to fluxbox.
I have successful done this (I think so anyways)
I have a custom menu and a custom style and background that I would like to use.
I have copied everything necessary to do this to the /etc/skel file, as well I have changed the files in the /etc/X11/fluxbox to reflex my custom setup.
I also changed the /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig to make sure it boots fluxbox by default
So far I have been successful in getting it to work (well sort of, i actually haven't been able to test it 100%)
The problem that i am having is that when I add the .fluxbox directory to the /home/knoppix directory and go into fluxbox (from the livecd) my custom style shows up but for some reason my background won't show up unless I issue the command:
Code:
fbsetbg -f ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/smile_joker.jpg
I have installed feh and it is working but still for some reason my background just isn't loading and I can't figure out why. It loads though if i do it manually and all the transparency settings work like a charm
The other thing that I find really weird. If I create a new user with the 'useradd -m <whatever>' command. When I log into the users account, the custom theme shows up but for some reason the .bashrc file is completely ignored and I am given a prompt of: 'sh-3.1$'
It doesn't matter what files I change I can't seem to edit my prompt ![Sad](images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
It will not read the .bashrc file at all and for some reason the prompt starts at /UNIONFS/root and NOT the users /home directory
Creating new users isn't essential for this livecd because it will only be a live cd and nothing more. But I wanted to test if what I have done so far is working.. and it seems like it is only half working ![Sad](images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
My fear is that with this testing. When I boot up my remastered knoppix CD and the /home/knoppix/ (the default user) user is created and fluxbox is booted, the environment will not reflect the changes that I have made.
If anyone could help shed some light on changing knoppix over to running fluxbox by default with a custom setup that would be amazing.
I have checked through the forums and as of yet I have not been able to come across the answers I need, or the answers are very vague.
Any help would greatly be appreciated
thank you in advance
cheers
todd
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Bummer... failure big time ![Sad](images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
Code:
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem, sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.
After burning the image to a CD and booting the remastered knoppix I get this error.
My custom boot screen image showed up, and the hardware detection get to detecting the CD-ROM drive and then after that I get this error message..
I am totally at a lose as to what is causing this. Can anyone please help point me in the direction of what might have caused this?
I would be so grateful for any help anyone can give me
thank you in advance
cheers
todd
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So I have been doing a little poking around about this problem both in these forums and on other forums. It seems that there might be an issue with the directory structure for isolinux directory?
Code:
mkisofs -pad -l -r -J -v -V "KNOPPIX" -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
-boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \
-hide-rr-moved -o /media/sda7/knx/knoppix.iso /media/sda7/knx/master
This is the command I used to create the final ISO image. From what I have there is a possibility that under the current directory structure of '/media/sda7/knx/master/boot/isolinux' i should try '/media/sda7/knx/master/isolinux'. Is this an option that I can try? I don't know if it will fix it but at this point I am willing to try just about anything.
I guess I should also mention that I am remastering the most recent version of knoppix. During the compression of the ISO everything went smoothly and I had no error at all
any help would greatly be appreciated
cheers
todd
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Senior Member
registered user
I had a similar problem with menu items in KDE, think the problem is in that remastering knoppix not all changes are copied back to /etc/skel from the
chroot environment.
This link should help:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28305
Use the rsync command to sync changes and let us know if it works.
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try to create and put a file called "45Xsession" in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ directory
and inside that file you put
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#!/bin/bash
# this is your background..
fbsetbg -f ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/smile_joker.jpg
# you can also put all the personalized setting commands here.
==================================
note, in that file, if you call a program, let's say firefox
"/usr/bin/firefox" and "/usr/bin/firefox &"
makes the different!! have a try.
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cd can't boot can be a lot of reasons, can you try run a md5 check sum on your burnt CD?
try to double check with that before you boot your CDs.
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the command you used...
Code:
mkisofs -pad -l -r -J -v -V "KNOPPIX" -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
-boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \
-hide-rr-moved -o /media/sda7/knx/knoppix.iso /media/sda7/knx/master
mmm......... it seems ok.
but this is what i usually do.
Code:
cd /media/sda7/knx/master
mkisofs -pad -l -r -J -v -V "KNOPPIX" -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
-boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \
-hide-rr-moved -o /media/sda7/knx/knoppix.iso .
and yes there is a dot at the end of this command.
for more info see.
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_...mpressed_Image
Winson
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