Doing a re-master from a CD ?

[Flying2Eagles]

Hello,

Is it possible to do re-mastering in reverse ?
That is, can I take a Knoppix 3.2 disk and copy the KNOPPIX file to the hard drive, convert it to an "iso" image and work from there ?

Downloading Knoppix iso at about 700MB with dialup is out of the question.
My only recource is to make an iso from the cd and work with it.

What I wan't to do is this: lower the volume when the female voice says
"Initiating startup". It just about blast me out of the chair!
Also, I have a dual boot system (Win ME).

I found the mixer file in /etc/aumixrc.
vol:79:79:R
This could be vol:40:40:R
But the file is marked as read only, and I can't modify it on the hard drive with GVIM. Using :w! doesn't work.

Any suggestions ?

[arkaine23]

Typical remastering is:

Boot the CD

Decompress the filesystem onto a HDD

Chroot into decompressed "source" filesystem

Make changes

Recompress and covert into ISO

Burn

Test

The standard method as described in the remastering guide requires more than 1GB of ram+swap and about 3GB of ext3 formatted space on a HDD.

[bankendbutje]

Hi F2E,

can you please tell me how to compress the filesystem back? en to what?
how is the KNOPPIX file compressed anyway, do you know that?

[Flying2Eagles]

Hi bankendbutje,

See if Sunil tomas site helps. http://gnubox.dyndns.org:8080/~sunil/knoppix.php

If I understand your question, You're asking, "How dows one start from a fully installed Debian linux system and convert it to Knoppix ?"

My guess, for example, if installed on hda6 (Mine is)

dd if=/dev/hda6 of=KNOPPIX
Then use mkisofs to include the other html pics and things.
when using mkisofs, there is a flag thats used.

mkisofs -R /mnt/hda6/KNOPPIX | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > (where you want the iso image).

Hope that gives you some insight.

[aay]

Hi F2E,

can you please tell me how to compress the filesystem back? en to what?
how is the KNOPPIX file compressed anyway, do you know that?

You should also look at the knoppix.net documentation: http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.php/FaqCustomising

[bankendbutje]

Hi F2E,

thanx, i found the docs on remastering. Now i can do the things described. At this moment am i making my KNOPPIX file, i didn't expect so much docs about remastering.
knewbie i am

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