Ramdisk and partial remastering in Knoppix 7

[klaus2008]

I'm interested to hear the experiences of others with Knoppix 7's ramdisk.

Hello utu!

When I read Klaus Knopper's post on the mailing list I decided to try the remastering procedure from the live system myself.

I use a kind of Poor man's install of Knoppix V 7.0.2 inside a VirtualBox 4.1.16. I copied the content of the DVD to the directory knx702 and use Grub as bootloader.

I think that a typical session looks as follows.

1. Boot with "noimage" cheat code.

2. Open root terminal.

3. Issue the following commands.

apt-get update
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree
apt-get clean

Of course, there are many more useful packages that are not included in the public version of Knoppix 7.0.2 since they are not free like unrar for example.

4. Create the archive file KNOPPIX1 from the ramdisk. The options used for makeisofs are the usual ones taken from the "Remastering howto". I use a temporary file on the virtual HDD since I do not have more than 1 GB of RAM available inside my virtual machine. I exclude some directories with files I consider not useful for the archive. Maybe there are more directories.

mkisofs -R -U -V "KNOPPIX1 filesystem" -P "KNOPPIX1" \
 -hide-rr-moved -cache-inodes -no-bak -pad \
 -x /ramdisk/var/lib/apt/lists -x /ramdisk/dev \
 -x /ramdisk/var/log -x /ramdisk/var/run /ramdisk | nice -5 \
 /usr/sbin/create_compressed_fs -b -B 65536 \
 -f /mnt-system/knx702/isotemp - /mnt-system/knx702/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX1

5. Reboot and enjoy Flash videos in Iceweasel.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.