Knoppix Remastering with Menu Based Scripts - Revision history

Werner P. Schulz: Replacing page with '{{delete|out of date}}--~~~~'

2012-02-29T10:25:22Z

Replacing page with '{{delete|out of date}}--~~~~'

2007-02-03T14:43:03Z

‎Intro: added warning that required script deosn't exist anymore

2005-11-12T18:06:16Z

‎Testing the ISO from the filesystem

2005-11-12T16:31:28Z

‎Testing the ISO from the filesystem

2005-11-12T16:24:17Z

‎Testing the ISO from the filesystem (not finished)

2005-11-12T16:19:00Z

‎Testing the ISO from the filesystem (not finished)

2005-11-12T16:16:12Z

‎Testing the ISO from the filesystem (not finished)

2005-11-12T04:39:35Z

‎Update to fix pty permissions may be needed

2005-11-12T04:37:42Z

‎Example build system partition setup

2005-11-12T04:12:54Z

‎Testing the ISO from the filesystem (not finished)

← Older revision		Revision as of 14:43, 3 February 2007
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	= Introduction =		= Introduction =
		+	('''Warning:''' Unfortunately, the script suggested in this howto doesn't seem to be available anymore! The link in section [[#Install_the_remastering_scripts\|4.1 Install the remastering scripts]] to http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/remaster/ does not work.)

	This is based on the document originally written by James Pryor at the http://knoppix.net forum pages and at http://www.virtualacuity.com/james/knoppix-howto.		This is based on the document originally written by James Pryor at the http://knoppix.net forum pages and at http://www.virtualacuity.com/james/knoppix-howto.

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   mkdir /mnt/iso
-  mount -oloop </path/to/develsystem>/remaster/Knoppix.build/Knoppix.Master/KNOPPIX-CUSTOM.iso /mnt/iso
+  mount -oloop \
   mount /dev/<testsystem> /mnt/<testsystem>
   cp -rP /mnt/iso/ /mnt/<testsystem>
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   cp /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /mnt/<testpartition>/boot/grub/
-Then create a /mnt/<testpartition>/boot/grub/grub.menu.1st like so (or add the text starting with 'title TestKnoppix' to your existing menu.1st if you already have grub installed somewhere):
+Then create a /mnt/<testpartition>/boot/grub/grub.menu.lst like so (or add the text starting with 'title TestKnoppix' to your existing menu.1st if you already have grub installed somewhere):
 <pre>
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 You should be able to reboot and boot into your Knoppix system from the grub menu now.
 = Optimizing the filesystem (not finished yet) =

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   cp -rP /mnt/<testpartition>/boot/grub \
   </path/to/develsystem>/remaster/KNOPPIX.build/Knoppix.Master/KNOPPIX-CUSTOM/boot/grub
 You should be able to reboot and boot into your Knoppix system from the grub menu now.
 = Burn ISO image =

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 The finished ISO file, for this example, is located at </path/to/develsystem>/remaster/Knoppix.build/Knoppix.Master/KNOPPIX-CUSTOM.iso.
-= Testing the ISO from the filesystem (not finished) =
+= Testing the ISO from the filesystem =
 You can 'install' the newly created ISO image to your /mnt/<testpartition> to verify it runs okay, and to optimize the CD access times.  To do so:
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   setup (hd0)
-You may want to consider adding the /boot/grub files to your remaster directly, to ease testing and regeneration so you don't have to run through this step every time you make a change to the remaster
+You may want to consider adding the /boot/grub files to your remaster directly, to ease testing and regeneration so you don't have to run through this step every time you make a change to the remaster.  From outside the remaster, something like:
 You should be able to reboot and boot into your Knoppix system from the grub menu now.

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   cp /lib/grub/i386-pc/stage{1,2} /mnt/<testpartition>/boot/grub/
-Then create a grub.conf like so:
+Then create a /mnt/<testpartition>/boot/grub/grub.menu.1st like so (or add the text starting with 'title TestKnoppix' to your existing menu.1st if you already have grub installed somewhere):
 <pre>
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 You may want to consider adding the /boot/grub files to your remaster directly, to ease testing and regeneration so you don't have to run through this step every time you make a change to the remaster
 = Burn ISO image =

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 Then create a grub.conf like so:
-<ore>
+<pre>
 color white/blue black/light-gray
 default 0
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 title TestKnoppix
-kernel (hd<number of hard disk for IDE master would be 0>,<partition number>)/boot/isolinux/linux ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init root=/dev/hdf7
+kernel (hd<num of hd by BIOS order IDE ms would be 0>,<partition num>)/boot/isolinux/linux ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init root=/dev/<testpartition>
-initrd (hd0)/boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
+initrd (hd<num of hd by BIOS order IDE ms would be 0>,<partition num)/boot/isolinux/minirt.gz
 </pre>
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   root (hd0,1)
   setup (hd0)
 = Burn ISO image =

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 == Update to fix pty permissions may be needed ==
-[[User:Leah|Leah]] 21:52, 11 Nov 2005 (GMT) I found that for some reason the permissions on /dev/pty were not being set to writable, so you couldn't open a konsole session on a new remaster, as it needs users to be able to access the pty's.  I recommend making this change to the <pathtoscriptsdir>/scripts/KNOPPIX.build/Knoppix.clean script as well, just in case.  Change the (backslashes wrapping text here not present in script) line:
+[[User:Leah|Leah]] 21:52, 11 Nov 2005 (GMT) I found that for some reason the permissions on /dev/pty were not being set to writable, so you couldn't open a konsole session on a new remaster, as it needs users to be able to access the pty's.  I recommend making this change to the </path/to/develsystem>KNOPPIX.build/Knoppix.clean script as well, just in case.  Change the (backslashes wrapping text here not present in script) line:
   chmod 666 /dev/ttyp* /dev/sg* /dev/audio* \
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   chmod 666 /dev/pty* /dev/ttyp* /dev/sg* /dev/audio* \
-  /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer* /dev/sequencer*
+  /dev/dsp* /dev/mixer* /dev/sequencer* /dev/null
 = Create the compressed filesystem =

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 * /dev/<swappartition> swap partition of 1GB in size
-* /dev/<testpartition> partition of at least 3GB for testing
+* /dev/<testpartition> partition of at least 1GB (CD) or 6GB(DVD) for testing
 * /dev/<development> partition of lots of size for development