HOWTO: Remaster the easy way using menu based scripts

[locklin]

Does this HOWTO work with KNOPPIX 3.9?

Thanks in advance...

[UnderScore]

No. Knoppix 3.9 has a buggy UnionFS and this makes remastering Knoppix 3.9 fail. If you intend to remaster, then you must use Knoppix 3.8.1 or 3.8.2.

[locklin]

Thanks UnderScore. I'll use 3.8.2 then.

[pdmp]

Hi all, I just remastered very succesfully with this script, but, I want to change the original cheatcodes, logo and everything is under /cdrom/boot/isolinux/

How can I do it before the compression?

Cheers,

Pedro

[UnderScore]

Hi all, I just remastered very succesfully with this script, but, I want to change the original cheatcodes, logo and everything is under /cdrom/boot/isolinux/

Pedro, see
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19661
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19455
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19623

[pdmp]

Hi all, I just remastered very succesfully with this script, but, I want to change the original cheatcodes, logo and everything is under /cdrom/boot/isolinux/

Pedro, see
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19661
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19455
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19623

Thank You UnderScore. I wasn't clear, sorry. I followed your Howto (It is Very good), but I also used the remastering scripts You proposed, and I still like to take advantage of them. I have been doing remastering succesfully the old way, changing every thing I needed, but I don't know nor figure out how to do what I ask for with the remastering script. Have You or any one any idea?

Pedro

[jaymart]

Hi,

Moran suggested a hack with line 1181 in knoppix-autoconfig.

Unfortunately, this does not apply to the version I have - 3.8.2

Am I using the wrong version? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

jaymart

[kornetto]

This was already earlier asked in this thread, but unfortunatly not answered;
why are symbolic links removed by the script from /etc/rc0.d /etc/rc1.d....?
Actually I want to build a remastered CD that starts up with FTP, apache and SSH.
Furthermore I built a script that preconfigures a bridge from all existing NICs.
I did this by placing the script into /etc/init.d and putting symbolic links into the folders /etc/rc2.d and so on.
Immediatly when starting the script I could see that it removes the symbolic links from the /etc/rcX.d folders.
is there a special reason for that, or is there another method how I can get a knoppix LiveCD where FTP, apache, SSH is started by default?
where do I have to place my script in order to get it executed by default when booting the remastered CD?

thanks a lot for this very detailled HowTo and excellent script.
If I get my above mentioned issues working I am totally satisfied and happy with it!

nice greetings from austria,
christian

[UnderScore]

why are symbolic links removed by the script from /etc/rc0.d /etc/rc1.d....?

In the menu, the option to "Clean up remaster." will remove symbolic links from /etc/rc0.d /etc/rc1.d ...
You can either skip the option "Clean up remaster.". Or you can edit the knoppix-remaster script and comment out those lines that delete the symbolic links. Or you can check this thread http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19826 where a workaround is discussed.
I wish you success.
James

[kornetto]

@underscore: you are right. simply skipping this part does the job and i still have my symlinks on the LiveCD
after trying that i succeeded with my first remastered Knoppix thanks your detailled HowTo.

Thanx for that!
kind regards from (in the meanwhile sunny) austria!
/Christian

PS & Offtopic: Now, I just have to find a way of simply skipping out everything unneeded from my remaster.
I plan to have a runlevel 2 only system housing apache, ftp, ssh and bridge. nothing else needed.
any hint what is the fastest method to find out which packages I can drop? actually all kde, x11 stuff etc...