Remastering Suite V1.01 released! Easy Knoppix-Remastering

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10-09-2003, 11:19 PM
PrOCesSkIlL

Remastering Suite V1.01 released! Easy Knoppix-Remastering

Hi all :lol:

Knoppix - Remastering Suite V1.01 released and tested on Knoppix V3.3

This suite lets you easily remaster the KNOPPIX-CD, through a menu-based interface.

It copies the CD into the needed directories, creates boot disk images (New 2.88MB CD-Boot image with rescue disk, based on busybox included) and starts a menu based package manager, with is very easy to use.

After exiting, the tool cleans up automatically (if you wish the tool to do so), checks and restores the dependencies and ask you to make the cd-image :roll:

Also, included is the fs-reengine V1.3 tool, which is described in the Remastering-Suite.

To use this tool, simply start your computer with the Knoppix-CD in runlevel 2 (recommended), while typing KNOPPIX 2 at the CD's boot prompt. After booting change to /tmp and enter wget http://download.ghostdrivers.de/remaster.php

After that enter tar -xvzf remaster.tgz and start with ./install.sh

Further steps declared in the program itself :wink:

Have fun and write your opinions and suggestions down here.
10-10-2003, 12:55 AM
PrOCesSkIlL

LITTLE UPDATE

I found an error, when the remastering-manager exits with Clean up and exit. It tells you to start ./root/Helpers/mkiso.

If you get an error message, type cd ./root/Helpers first and then ./mkiso
that will work.

Second little bug, the install.sh script copies the hole /cdrom path, which takes much time. This error has also been fixed.

Another error, if install.sh hangs on creating floppy-images. Type j or y [ENTER] twice. This has also been fixed.

An error in the console.colours.inc script hides some outputs of fs-reengine, that has been fixed, too.

All users who has downloaded the suite already, please re-download.
10-10-2003, 08:26 AM
mikekgr

Dear PrOCesSkIlL,
although I did try (yet :wink: ) your very prosperous Remastering Suite, I would like to thank you for your time to build this.

The Linux and Knoppix community is remarkable contributory !!!

Best Regards
Mike Kranidis
10-10-2003, 09:47 AM
pooh_

I also want to express my gratitude for this beautifull piece of work!

Thank you.
10-11-2003, 04:38 AM
HalfWalker

Teeny buig in remaster.sh

Hey PrOCesSkIlL

Awesome work. Makes things sooo much simpler.

I found one teeny tiny bug in the /root/Helpers/remaster.sh script. The dpkg-query line that generates the Packages.Installed file has an extra $ in it.

--showformat='${Installed-Size} ${$Package} ...

should be

--showformat='${Installed-Size} ${Package} ...

D.
10-28-2003, 09:22 AM
Herlock

Oh nooo...

Hope it isn't me that is a lamer :)

I have now used the fine tool and everything went well...but...the CD won't boot !?!

There are only these files on the CD build from the iso:

KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
KNOPPIX/boot.cat
KNOPPIX/boot.img
KNOPPIX/md5sums

Any hints will be greatly appreciated :)

Best Regards

Herlock
12-04-2003, 10:58 PM
eve

the remastering suite works fine .
but we have the same problem as Herlock.
please heeeeelpjavascript:emoticon(':roll:')
12-05-2003, 03:04 PM
bfree

Re: Oh nooo...

Quote:

Originally Posted by Herlock

Hope it isn't me that is a lamer :)

I have now used the fine tool and everything went well...but...the CD won't boot !?!

I'm afraid I haven't used this tool so I can't be certain about what the problem is. However, it would be helpful if you tell people what exactly "won't boot" means? Do you mean that your machine is set to boot from cd but just boots as normal with the cd in? Or do you mean that it starts to boot and fails at some point?

If you machine is ignoring the cd, then it's pretty certain that the cd isn't bootable for some reason. You could try making a boot floppy from the cd (not sure how you do it if it has a 2.88M boot.img) using "dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=dev/fd0" and then booting from it instead. If you wrote the original onto a cd-rw you could go back in and re-write the cd, making sure that mkisofs is passed in the boot.img to make it bootable (use "-b /master/KNOPPIX/boot.img" in your options to mkisofs).

If your machine is starting to boot up (i.e. something happens, different to what happens when you don't have the cd in) but doesn't complete the boot up then you'll just have to tell us all where it falls over and then someone could figure out what's wrong.
12-08-2003, 09:50 PM
nukewinter

I tried running these scripts. I believe it is failing for me when it tries to instal php. When it tries to start remastering-manager I get a "bad interpreter" message. If I try to run "apt-get --reinstall install php4-cgi -y" manually, I get the error messages "W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or open

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
12-09-2003, 08:48 AM
bfree

Quote:

Originally Posted by nukewinter

If I try to run "apt-get --reinstall install php4-cgi -y" manually, I get the error messages "W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or open

The above indicates that you are not running as root or else you are running apt-get on a read-only filesystem (as you would from a knoppix cd as oppossed to chrooted in the master tree for a remaster). I haven't used the script but looking at it I can't see why you need to install php? What are the last messages and what error are you getting when you run install.sh?
12-09-2003, 02:30 PM
mipooh

For me this tool did not work as it did not find my internetconnection which was there.
But it asked me to wait, what I did.......
12-28-2003, 08:35 PM
miloman

Same as Herlock and eve. CD does seem to boot, but just a blinking cursor on the sceen. The i hit enter and the error is:
This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy and hit any key.
Tried booting from a floppy made with the KNOPPIX 2003-11-19 EN version, but no luck either....
Think i saw an error about with boot-something flashing on the screen while creating the ISO.
My 19-11 KNOPPIX was in the 2nd cd-drive (=DVD) while creating this ISO..... ANy suggestions?
Had no luck with the KnoppixRemasteringHowto....
Want to make a cd(-rw) with my website on it (doesn't change that often) to run a diskless pc as a bullet-proof webserver.
[/Edit]Never mind.... used the http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.ph...masteringHowto ... remebered how to paste (SHFT-INS). This time worked flawlessly!
01-14-2004, 12:31 PM
haeckser

Hi, :D
I was happy when I read about the suite, but unfortunately the URL http://download.ghostdrivers.de/remaster.php is any longer valid. When I try to contact the domain, I got the information that access is restricted to mail account :cry:
From where can I get the script ??

best regards
Dirk Mikkelsen
01-16-2004, 04:59 PM
SuperTeece

.......

Yes, please give us an updated link. If we can figure out the boot issue, and it works I will love you -- purely plutonic of course ;)
01-17-2004, 03:16 AM
Hunkah

Suuuuuuure! :wink:
01-18-2004, 10:16 PM
raptor

Re: Remastering Suite V1.01 released! Easy Knoppix-Remasteri

wget http://download.ghostdrivers.de/remaster.php

i cant open the address !!!
01-23-2004, 11:59 AM
KnightPusher

HTTP 404 Not Found

Hi guys,

The link you've posted is invalid.. Please tell me the right one..

see ya.
KP
01-26-2004, 09:09 AM
triveditej

remastering link

hi

the remastering link that u have posted is invalid. please specify the correct link so that we can use it.

TEJ
01-26-2004, 11:46 AM
c123

The site is down, there's a message saying that the domain is currently only active/will only used for e-mail :(

"GhostDrivers.de wird nur noch zur eMail-Kommunikation genutzt."

HTH
01-27-2004, 05:59 AM
jnopix

found and downloaded the remaster.tgz file at
http://cruxware.host.sk/dl/
click on "Remaster", a window will pop-up and then on the "click here" inside the dialog box. The automatic download did not work for me.
01-29-2004, 11:28 PM
tomers

Swap is always created

I have 128MB of RAM, and a swap partition of 1G...
The script still creates swap file. It should check for minimum size and only if it is needed it should create the swap file.
02-03-2004, 05:28 PM
Bukowski

Quote:

Originally Posted by jnopix

found and downloaded the remaster.tgz file at
http://cruxware.host.sk/dl/
click on "Remaster", a window will pop-up and then on the "click here" inside the dialog box. The automatic download did not work for me.

this site is down.... or something:

dswan@ashtaroth[dswan] links -dump http://cruxware.host.sk/dl/
Error reading from socket
03-10-2004, 04:10 AM
kompressor

I was able to remaster an image using:
http://www.ing-buero-unger.de/prj/knx/index.html knx-cdcust.sh

Its kinda sketchy at times. but I was able to make it go. Maybe you can too.

I also saw these, but havent tried em yet:
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/py430/knoppix/index.html
http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/l...re/mkmyknoppix
03-24-2004, 08:22 PM
eBug

Re: Remastering Suite V1.01 released! Easy Knoppix-Remasteri

The domain "download.ghostdrivers.de" is not available.

Die Domain "download.ghostdrivers.de" ist nicht verfügbar.

:(

Quote:

Originally Posted by PrOCesSkIlL

Hi all :lol:

Knoppix - Remastering Suite V1.01 released and tested on Knoppix V3.3

This suite lets you easily remaster the KNOPPIX-CD, through a menu-based interface.

It copies the CD into the needed directories, creates boot disk images (New 2.88MB CD-Boot image with rescue disk, based on busybox included) and starts a menu based package manager, with is very easy to use.

After exiting, the tool cleans up automatically (if you wish the tool to do so), checks and restores the dependencies and ask you to make the cd-image :roll:

Also, included is the fs-reengine V1.3 tool, which is described in the Remastering-Suite.

To use this tool, simply start your computer with the Knoppix-CD in runlevel 2 (recommended), while typing KNOPPIX 2 at the CD's boot prompt. After booting change to /tmp and enter wget http://download.ghostdrivers.de/remaster.php

After that enter tar -xvzf remaster.tgz and start with ./install.sh

Further steps declared in the program itself :wink:

Have fun and write your opinions and suggestions down here.
03-24-2004, 08:31 PM
eBug

I was looking for your script but i can't get to your page:

The domain "download.ghostdrivers.de" is not available.

Die Domain "download.ghostdrivers.de" ist nicht verfügbar.
04-01-2004, 12:26 AM
Drezliok

Where did the Knoppix - Remastering Suite V1.01 go, I have searched the internet with some of the best search engines. only reference refers to here.
04-01-2004, 09:52 AM
crux

You can download it from here :

http://cruxware.host.sk/modules.php?...op=getit&lid=3

No registration required :)

Prakash Shetty
http://cruxware.host.sk
04-01-2004, 02:41 PM
kami-kernal

Re: Remastering Suite V1.01 released! Easy Knoppix-Remasteri

kami-kernal hi to all:
the link u have posted is not working ,,,plz some one tell me where can i find the same thing . i am a new user in the linux world. i want to learn about script and want to know "how to make moduels"...plz any body help me ...i will be very greatful to u

:P

Quote:

Originally Posted by PrOCesSkIlL

Hi all :lol:

Knoppix - Remastering Suite V1.01 released and tested on Knoppix V3.3

This suite lets you easily remaster the KNOPPIX-CD, through a menu-based interface.

It copies the CD into the needed directories, creates boot disk images (New 2.88MB CD-Boot image with rescue disk, based on busybox included) and starts a menu based package manager, with is very easy to use.

After exiting, the tool cleans up automatically (if you wish the tool to do so), checks and restores the dependencies and ask you to make the cd-image :roll:

Also, included is the fs-reengine V1.3 tool, which is described in the Remastering-Suite.

To use this tool, simply start your computer with the Knoppix-CD in runlevel 2 (recommended), while typing KNOPPIX 2 at the CD's boot prompt. After booting change to /tmp and enter wget http://download.ghostdrivers.de/remaster.php

After that enter tar -xvzf remaster.tgz and start with ./install.sh

Further steps declared in the program itself :wink:

Have fun and write your opinions and suggestions down here.
04-01-2004, 04:10 PM
Bukowski

Quote:

Originally Posted by crux

You can download it from here :

http://cruxware.host.sk/modules.php?...op=getit&lid=3

No registration required :)

Prakash Shetty
http://cruxware.host.sk

dswan@ashtaroth[remastering] tar -zxvf remaster.tgz [ 4:04PM]
./
./Helpers/
./Helpers/php.ini
./Helpers/remaster.sh
./Helpers/remastering-manager
./Helpers/license.txt
./Helpers/mkiso
./Helpers/fs-reengine
./Helpers/translation.cfg
./Helpers/console.colours.inc
./Helpers/copyright.txt
./install.sh
./rescue.img

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I'm assuming that shouldn't happen... haven't checked to see if anything is badly affected by this.
04-02-2004, 01:32 AM
christian_thomas

Processkill / ghostdrivers.de / Remastering

Hello people and linux-users,

after processkill made things which can be designated illegally, i changed and / or had shut down www.routix.de and www.ghostdrivers.de.

Informations in german language on aforementioned domains!

Greetings,

Christian Thomas,

owner of http://routix.de and www.ghostdrivers.de