Re: Remastering Knoppix

[Klaus Knopper <debian-knoppix@knopper.net>]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 02:18:42PM -0700, JD wrote:
>    On 06/07/2012 09:38 AM, Klaus Knopper wrote:
> 
>  Hello JD and list,
> 
>  Some minor additions:
> 
>  On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 09:31:30AM -0700, JD wrote:
>  [...]
> 
>   cd /ramdisk
>   sudo mkisofs -R -U bin sbin usr lib var | create_compressed_fs -B 131072 -m - - > /tmp/KNOPPIX1
> 
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^There are actually more useful options, but -R is required for keeping the
>  Unix-type permissions, owner and group information intact, and I tries to keep commands short.
> 
> 
>   Then create a new bootable DVD:
> 
>   mkisofs -pad -l -r -J \
>           -V "KNOPPIX" -A "KNOPPIX" \
>           -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table \
>           -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \
>           -hide-rr-moved \
>           -o DVD.iso DVD-directory
> 
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Make sure that DVD-directory is fully writable
>  (i.e. chmod -R ug+wX DVD-directory. If you copied from DVD using cp -a, permissions
>  are usually set to read-only.
> 
> 
>     Thanx a LOT Klaus.
>     I am sure your elucidation will help many more users
>     than just me.
>     I am keeping your email for future reference.
> 
>  The remastering howto at knoppix.net recommends cleaning up especially
>  the /var directory from temporary files and archive caches, which I left
>  out in my description. But in order to keep the addon-images small, you
>  should probably do these cleanups before mkisofs, directly in the live
>  system.
> 
>  Regards
>  -Klaus
> 
> 
>    Thank you kindly Klaus.
>    I assume that the resulting iso file will be bootable?

The mkisofs options

 -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin

will make it bootable.

Regards
-Klaus