remastering from another lnx distro

[sancelot]

Hi,

I would like to remaster my knoppix distribution using my debian server.
This involves not booting the KNOPPIX CD . I would like to know how to mount the knoppix boot image in order to be able to copy it in my source dir ?

Steph

[arkaine23]

I think you could-

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/test
cp -R /mnt/test/* /to/wherever

Another thing to be aware of is that you MUST have the same version of cloop-utils on the box that does the remastering as on the CD being remastered.

[Ambrose]

Yeah, you'll have to boot up the Knoppix version you want to remaster, and copy extract_compressed_fs and create_compressed_fs from /usr/bin and copy those two files to your remaster-box. Or you could try and download those files offline.

Once you have extract_compressed_fs, copy all the files from the mounted Knoppix cd in your remaster box and run ./extract_compressed_fs ./$BIG_KNOPPIX_FILE > $big_knoppix_iso_uncompressed.iso

Then mount $big_knoppix_iso_uncompressed.iso with -o loop and copy the files to a directory.

Then your done.

Good luck,

-a