6.7.1 Remastering

[Werner P. Schulz]

Then created the remastered iso.

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How do you did this? With old chroot method of Remaster HowTo, with my script "kn-remaster" or with my script "kn-recombine"?

[itman007]

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How do you did this? With old chroot method of Remaster HowTo, with my script "kn-remaster" or with my script "kn-recombine"?

Script kn-remaster

[Werner P. Schulz]

Yes, I revised the old "chroot method" this days and made it more comfortable. It works for Knoppix CD and DVD.

The method with kn-remaster I recomend only, if you want to create a special Rescue CD.

If you like to work with Knoppix DVD, make a flash disk installation (poor man installation) or a "poor man harddrive installation", each of these with persistent memory.
Hard drive Installation

If after some time there is a lot of unneccesary stuff in your persistent memory, you can consider to use the method kn-recombine.

[Werner P. Schulz]

Yes, if you have a HD installation via Prefrences-Knoppix HD Install and "autoconfigure", '/media /sda1' will be the swap partition and '/media/sda2' the Knoppix partition.

If you will use old "chroot method" pay attention to:

Find the partition you will use to work on and change the variable "PFAD" within the scripts as you need. In this example it is called /media/sda1.

Greetings Werner

[Werner P. Schulz]

I never tested to remaster Knoppix DVD with kn-remaster
Now I did it and found, it doesn't work without enough RAM; the new '/opt/knx/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX' will not be created. Therefore the ISO gets the wrong size.

Next time I'll test it on a not virtual machine with 4GB RAM in a separate partition.

Also with "kn-recombine" and Knoppix DVD flash disk installation you need a lot of RAM and a not virtual machine.

[itman007]

I never tested to remaster Knoppix DVD with kn-remaster
Now I did it and found, it doesn't work without enough RAM; the new '/opt/knx/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX' will not be created. Therefore the ISO gets the wrong size.

Next time I'll test it on a not virtual machine with 4GB RAM in a separate partition.

Also with "kn-recombine" and Knoppix DVD flash disk installation you need a lot of RAM and a not virtual machine.

Ive just upgraded my ram to 4Gb, I was at 2. I will try again. Thanks greatly!

[itman007]

Ive just upgraded my ram to 4Gb, I was at 2. I will try again. Thanks greatly!

Same outcome with 4 Gb ram?

[itman007]

I never tested to remaster Knoppix DVD with kn-remaster
Now I did it and found, it doesn't work without enough RAM; the new '/opt/knx/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX' will not be created. Therefore the ISO gets the wrong size.

Next time I'll test it on a not virtual machine with 4GB RAM in a separate partition.

Also with "kn-recombine" and Knoppix DVD flash disk installation you need a lot of RAM and a not virtual machine.

This dir and the KNOPPIX file was created, but the KNOPPIX file is 0 kb .

[itman007]

Im starting over with clean /opt. Start KN Remaster, Prepare env. I get a message I assume is ok, mount block dev /dev/sr0 is write protected, mounting read only. ( this should be fine since sr0 is the DVD drive) Next message Copy CD ISO, ( Im concerned about this message due to this being a DVD ) , Next message, Gunzip Initial Ram-disk, 4774 blocks, mount block device /dev/cloop0 is write protected, mounting read only. (not sure if this is ok)

[itman007]

Im starting over with clean /opt. Start KN Remaster, Prepare env. I get a message I assume is ok, mount block dev /dev/sr0 is write protected, mounting read only. ( this should be fine since sr0 is the DVD drive) Next message Copy CD ISO, ( Im concerned about this message due to this being a DVD ) , Next message, Gunzip Initial Ram-disk, 4774 blocks, mount block device /dev/cloop0 is write protected, mounting read only. (not sure if this is ok) Next is Prepare Remaster Environment, Decompress Filesystem Image, this will take a long time, (now a few errors) ,
cp cannot start /usr/sbin/kn-img-create : No such file or directory
cp cannot start /usr/sbin/kn-copy-img : No such file or directory
cp cannot start /usr/share/kn-knoppix/.bashrc : No such file or directory
rm cannot remove /home/knoppix/.adobe : No such file or directory
rm cannot remove /home/knoppix/.aptitude: No Such file or directory
rm cannot remove /home/knoppix/.config/chromium : No Such file or directory
rm cannot remove /home/knoppix/.elinks : No Such file or directory
rm cannot remove /home/knoppix/.kde : No Such file or directory
rm cannot remove /home/knoppix/.mozilla : No Such file or directory
rm cannot remove /home/knoppix/.libreoffice : No Such file or directory
rm cannot remove /opt/knx/remaster/home/knoppix/.kde : No Such file or directory
mkdir cannot create directory /usr/share/kn-knoppix/save : file exist

No back to Prepare remaster environemnt.
Finished (gives time)
states rmaster env is in /opt/knx
Edit items
Select Ok!
Back to main menu!
Build new iso from remastered knoppix.
Hit OK.
Building
start creation.
(starts listing the blocks)
Back to menu: Build new Knoppix ISO
Finished. (states time)
(where to find iso)
Hit OK
Back to beging Main Menu.
Open /opt/knx/iso/ (iso it just build)
The ISO is still only 11Mgb.