Re: [debian-knoppix] Re: remastering Knoppix CD
Hallo Knoppixer,
I have added Xdialog to the scripts of Th. Lange for remastering
knoppix.
It is still very experimental I think but it works for me. Remastering
needs 6 GByte free diskspace on one partition! A swapfile is generated,
too. You just have to mount a partition writeable to a dir, something
like "mkdir /users;mount /dev/hda2 /users".
You still must know, how to customize DEBIAN, because it just does a
chroot. But I want to expand that even further.
The script and a screenshot are here:
http://www.ing-buero-unger.de/prj/knx/index.html
I hope it will be usefull, but remember it is always a good idea to have
a backup and you need 6 GB FREE diskspace.
My roadmap:
1) debug, improve errorhandling
2) Make menue with customizing tasks, like minimal-knoppix, edit
knoppix.sh, edit index.html, cp /usr/local/* ...
*) test with dialog on console
*) Better docs and better webpage, i know it is lousy :-((
Have a nice day
Achim Unger
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Achim Unger wrote:
>
> > > So our project would be a solution for you: Just download the
> > > stuff you really need. Perhaps using some Debian-CDs before
> > > obtaining the remanining things from the net.
> >
> > NOW, I see what you and sean finney are working on! You want to
> > unpack KNOPPIX on HD, load just the new packages from internet and
> > remaster KNOPPIX, right?
> WRONG. We do not want to unpack it. We just want to do it the other
> way around. We want to assemble it from scratch via downloading only
> the necessary bits. A "complete" assembly would/could/shoud end in an
> original Knoppix, but many people want their own Knoppix and we want
> to support this by keeping their download effort low while taking as
> much workload from Klaus Knoppers shoulder as we could.
>
> > Well, the script from Thomas Lange does this,
> Please try to understand: This script is a great help but it does a
> completely different job.
>
>
> > A chroot to the
> > uncompressed KNOPPIX, apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and a
> > remastering should do it what you want, at least in theory.
> No it does not.
> Moreover once Klaus Knopper decides to change something this script
> has to be changed, too.
>
> > But according to this
> > mailing list there had been Problems in doing so. :-((
> And you are currently bussy to solve this problems. ;-)
> We just try to avoid these toubles by not relaying on a fixed ISO
> image but create it from scratch. In my opinion the optimum solution
> would be, if Klaus Knopper would use this system for his own official
> CD. But at first it must start working because people obviousely do
> not understand the power of this kind of system.
>
> > > > I want to build a script, that reads a CD, start chroot bash to
> > > > modify it, make the iso-image and burn it if you have a
> > > > CD-Writer in addition to the cd knoppix is running from!
> > > The idea is to obtain this image once and just obtain the changed
> > > things via "apt-get upgrade". This would definitely save your
> > > small bandwidth.
> >
> > So, we are working on the same problem. Maybe tomorrow I will relase
> > my script, or bette the improved version by Th. Lange. I have to
> > test it once on a different machine to see it works.
> Sorry, I was referencing to Thomas script and my remark was obviousely
> confusing.
>
> > > > I hope I hve not understood your project wrong, have I?
> > > I hope this (and seans) mail clarify things.
> >
> > NOW, I understand:-))
> >
> > Could one possible solution be, setting up one server with deb
> > packages and modify sources.list, so all packages ae loaded from
> > there? One problem might be where can we find the filespace!?
> We have the file space on Debian mirrors all over the world. We just
> have to add these tiny bits which make the difference from Knoppix to
> Debian.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.
>
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