arkaine23;

Mitey fine to hear from you on this subject. I have googled a bit or two about the graphical mode remaster but haven't attempted but just the method described by Sunnijl which employs KDE procedures but chroots to /mnt/hda3/KNOPPIX (the KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file).

I was successful in re-mastering KNOPPIX v3.8 Cebit to 748MB size and used a "SPLIT" .iso procedure to generate a DVD burn. Modified the isolinux.cfg to permit automatic boot-up to persistent home config.

The "SPLIT" .iso method employs a "prefix.iso" which is concatenated with a "suffix.iso". The prefix.iso is essentially everything but the /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX derived from the KNOPPIX v3.8 .iso. The suffix.iso is generated by the re-master procedure operated on the KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file. Mkisofs is applied to generate the compressed fs and again mkisofs is applied to generate a full .iso after inserting the modified KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX file into a copy of the CDROM (KNOPPIX V 3.. The resultant .iso is loop-mounted and the prefix.iso and suffix.iso are concatenated to produce the final re-mastered .iso.

I am not certain whether your method will permit the "SPLIT" mode to be employed.

The full purpose of doing all this is to test the proposition that the "SPLIT" procedure will permit the loading of a DVD disc to full capacity rather than be limited to 2GB as is the case with isolinux.iso generators.

To test the proposition I would be satisfied if I could randomly load large-sized applications totaling 3.6GB. This would make the total 4.4GB.

It seems my attempts to load random apps from the KPACKAGE listings produced no loadable apps in apt-get install. I selected apps which had no conflicts and most were 20MB or more.

I probably need more smarts about debian access than I have at present.

I expect it will take around 300 apps to get to 3.5GB if the data listed for the apps is compressed file size. If it is not, then I will need 6-8GB of apps!!!

As you can plainly see, I am not a Debian user except to try this "SPLIT" thing and probably try it on other LiveCD's as well.

I hope this description makes sense to you. The listing of /etc/apt/sources was made from my "SPLIT" .iso of KNOPPIX V 3.8 DVD (748mb).

The DVD illustrates that the "SPLIT" works but is no guarantee it will carry out to 4.4GB since it can go to 2GB under normal conditions.

It seems that loading 3.0+ apps in Debian can be a resl pain!!



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