Other Help Topics :: Struggling to Remaster



casio, no.  The "/wherever/" is the path to the directory where the files are stored.  The *.deb.deb should have been *.deb

You could use emelfm to transfer the files instead of cp.

I was using The method I had posted about before where I create a source directory and a newcd directory and use mkisofs to create the new iso.  I tried using the search function to find it but the board is so damn slow that it borders on damn useless for me.  I believe it's all covered in meo's remastering post (start from the latest since things have changed.
I was lying when I said "final question"  :O , as I am wondering whether it is possible on doing a remaster CD if users can be added as part of the system. My only thought on this would be to add lines to the /opt/bootlocal.sh (i think thats its name) such as
useradd <name> passwd <name> however this would mean entering the password everytime on boot up would it not?

Regards

Casio
I've found that once I've run the chroot command and my new root is the source/KNOPPIX directory that I can add users, change passwords, and add groups.  Do this after the chroot and before the <control> D.  That way it's part of the group and password files in the remaster.
Clacker, I tried the remastering option that you mentioned however when I did the dpkg -i *.deb the postfix installation normally brings up a wizard of sorts asking for prompts. This did not happen. However I did burn this to disk and as I expected uucp has not been installed.

The method of remastering I used was from the HOWTO thread page 11 as this is for the up to date version of DSL, and I did you suggested before creating the image etc.

Any Ideas why it didnt work?

Regards

Casio
Another Since my last post > I have been trying to figure out where this problem is. What I didnt mentioned before was that I had done a script to avoid having to keep typing all of the instructions , however where there were problems the script did not send any errors to screen.

So I did the whole lot manually and found that when I did the mydsl-load commands it needed to be the dsl user. Fair enough so I did a su dsl ran the command again and got a cannot allocate color error. This seems to have prevented dpkg-dsl and gnu-utils.dsl from installing. So I am then unable to install the deb files.

<EDITED>Scrap the above I think I have solved this now. It was a combination of copying over the *.dsl files without their *.md5 (or so it seems) and I also ran it all outside of the GUI</EDITED>

Thanks to Clacker for the help, this has put to bed a real problem I was having and as I did the remastering i started to understand a lot more what each stage was doing.


Regards

Casio
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