gui iso editor

hello

do forgive the sales pitch from a guy with 2 posts :)

i'm the author of iso master ( http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster ), an open source iso editor for linux. basically you can add and delete files/folders from the image using a gui.

i would like to propose that you consider using it to customise the knoppix cd. unfortunately i know 0 about how to customise a knoppix but i did create a modified image of the knoppix 5.0.1 cd image using the app and it seems to work fine. customising has got to do with adding files.. i tested that to make sure it works with knoppix.

i do hope you will find a use for iso master, and let me know if there are features you want or bugs you find

cheers

I was also going to post this as yesterday i saw the release on freshmeat.net.
Good work.I will try it out soon.

I've tested your isomaster and I think it's good.
But for the purpose of remastering, nothing much you can do with it, unless something like compress/decompress of cloop or squashfs is added to the options.

Hope that will give you some idea for upcoming version.

I disagree, this sort of program is very useful. You can use it to change lots of stuff on the ISO image (configs.tbs, knoppix.sh, minirt.gz, etc., even the compressed fs (which would need to be created externally, of course). I tried it out myself. It compiled and seemed to run ok, but crashed when I tried to save the modified ISO image. I compiled using Kubuntu 6.06. I'll give it another try with Debian unstable. So, thanks for putting this together - it's a needed app in the free software community, and it looks like it should be running smoothly soon.

hi

i am sorry, there is a bug that will make isomaster crash when writing. i'm going to release the next version within the next few days with that fixed.

thanks for the kind words

cheers

Dear mig21,
please accept my congratulation. Your ISOMASTER although it is at the begining of development, looks very promissed.
Make it the best one.

Keep your nice work!!!
(Sorry to say that I am not programmer so I can not help you it that way... If I can do anything else just let me know).

Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

thanks mikekgr

are you greek? once i put in i18n support (don't know how long until then, probably more than 6 months), maybe you can translate it for me?

Dear mig21,

yes I am from Greece. Sure when you need any translation to Greek language please let me know. I will be happy to help your very nice project.

Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

The 27 September (0.4) version at http://littlesvr.ca/isomaster/releas...er-0.4.tar.bz2 worked fine for me. This is great, it saves me a lot of time messing around with the ParallelKnoppix live CD. Thanks!

version 0.5 is out. check it out if you're interested, i fixed some bugs and added some small features.

i wonder, what kind of package management is there in knoppix and is it a possibility to include iso master with the distro? is there a place i can read about the policies for new packages?

it's pretty small, 150k and even smaller if you run strip on the binary.

version 0.6 is out and i feel it's stable and well tested so it's safe to be included in a distribution.

Dear mig21,
the package management of knoppix because it is Debian based is APT using *.deb packages.
I am sorry to say that I have almost zero experience in order to build Debian packages from source, BUT I am sure that the process it is not difficult. You need only a good help hand from any Debian developer or so...

Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

thanks for the reply mikegr

i actually already have a .deb iso master mainainer, and we're trying to get it into debian and ubuntu.

so i guess the only part of my question that remains is: what can i do to get iso master into knoppix :) i do think that it's worth it, and since it's so small it won't really affect users who don't need it.

is there a person or a group i should get in touch with?

Dear mig21
please go to the following mailing list that the knoppix developers talk each other. There you can find the way I thing
http://lists.debian.org/debian-knoppix/

Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

thanks again mike, i posted on the mailing list.