remastering knoppix from a non-knoppix linux environment

[freemant]

Hi,

I'd like to remaster knoppix while working in Debian sarge (not knoppix). Is it possible to use the Klaus scripts to do that? Any thing else to do?

Thanks!

[ockham23]

As far as I know, remastering is possible only if you boot from the Knoppix cd (at least, if you follow the manual http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto).

On the other hand, this will not affect your Linux install; all you need is a writable partition and lots of memory/swap.

If you don't even want Knoppix to have write access to a partition, you could try to run it on a virtual PC using qemu. I use VMWare Workstation for Windows which makes remastering and testing very simple and efficient (no need to re-partition your hard disk, test ISO files before you burn CDs).