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    Remastering CD Puzzlement

    Hello Fellow Remasterers,

    I've been wondering why one would go through all the steps,
    - swapfile
    - all the mounts ("bind" or otherwise).
    - chroot

    which make the procedure an order of magnitude more
    - complicated
    - error prone
    - lengthy

    instead of
    - just simply staying in the original environment
    - making the desired changes

    AND replacing
    cp -rp /KNOPPIX/* $PFAD/knx/source/KNOPPIX

    with
    cp -rp /UNIONFS/* $PFAD/knx/source/KNOPPIX
    rsync -aH ...
    ...

    when done setting up the new (to be remastered) system before
    the "regular" steps,
    genisoimage -input-charset ...
    etc.

    I'm probably missing something (big), but so far any
    remastered CD of v7.0.4 set up according to my wishes
    based on the above simpler procedure works without a hitch.

    Thanks

    P.S.
    1. My "wishes" above would be, for example, removing
    a few "non-essential" (for me) packages (like cuneiform-common,
    smbclient, etc.) to replace iceweasel and make room for
    the latest full firefox (15.0.1).

    2. I notice some other people have provided "non-chroot" solutions.
    They've been harder to follow for me as being graphical (as opposed to command line).
    I apologize to the authors for any overlap and any similarities are purely
    coincidental.

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    Code:
    cp -rp /UNIONFS/* $PFAD/knx/source/KNOPPIX
    rsync -aH ...
    What about "cp" and "rsync"?
    Code:
    rsync -aH /UNIONFS/* $PFAD/knx/source/KNOPPIX
    will do the job.

    I use the new generated ISO only within a flash disk installation and didn't describe, how to build a new remastered CD using "rsync UNIONFS".

    But it is also possible to create a CD like your suggestion and omit the use of an USB stick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alphonsu View Post

    2. I notice some other people have provided "non-chroot" solutions.
    They've been harder to follow for me as being graphical (as opposed to command line).
    I apologize to the authors for any overlap and any similarities are purely
    coincidental.
    I don't think you have followed the discussions here very closely, for example following forrester's scripts and developments from that.

    I have posted updated scripts, CLI-only. (But I think they might be given a graphical wrapping , too.)

    I have successfully used Qemu running the ISO image even doing the whole remastering in a virtual machine. Bypassing any burning or initial installs. But it is faster (and I think simpler and safer) to create a USB install in Qemu, boot that and do the remastering stuff on a mounted HD partition.

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