Re: No Adriane-Knoppix images for 7.4.x?
Dear Jeffery,
I have been skipping the DVD and installing straight to USB flash or hard
drive for several revisions, now, so I don't recall the details of how to
make a bootable CD/DVD, but, you may like to know, that you did almost
everything correctly. Your problem lies in the stage where you created
the iso9660 image: You didn't make it bootable. Everything else was
fine.
If I were you, I would try this:
# from the latest krhowto_4 script listed at
http://knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto#Remastering_the_ISO
# Path to partition you will work on
PFAD="/media/sda1"
# Disable screensaver
xscreensaver-command -exit
# Update the file hashes used by the "testcd" boot option
cd $PFAD/knx/master ; find -type f -not -name \
sha1sums -not -name boot.cat -not \
-name isolinux.bin -exec sha1sum '{}' \; > KNOPPIX/sha1sums
# Create new Knoppix ISO
genisoimage -l -r -J -V "KNOPPIX" \
-b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
-boot-info-table -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \
-o $PFAD/knx/remastered.iso $PFAD/knx/master
(I extracted only the lines needed for this particular project.)
By the way, what other files differs between standard and adriane, besides
boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg and KNOPPIX/sha1sums ?
Good luck!
Regards,
Andrew
On Wed, October 1, 2014 21:21, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote:
> Good Evening,
>
> First, let me say that Adriane has been an absolute lifesaver, not
> only allowing me to regain use of a computer following retinal
> detachment in my one good eye, but providing a blind man's OS that
> doesn't require the assistence of a sighted person to set-up.
>
> That said, the absence of official images of 7.4.x that boot into
> Adriane by default is concerning, especially since my 7.2.0 Adriane
> disc is really starting to show it's age. I know there is a cheat code
> to make the DVD boot into Adriane mode, and while this might be
> acceptable for blind users who have the assistance of a sighted person
> who is sufficiently competent with computers, I am not so fortunate. I
> know the Adriane images are normally based on the CD version, which
> has been discontinued/put on a sparser release schedule due to a poor
> benefit-to-effort ratio, but even a Adriane DVD would be preferable to
> no Adriane images at all.
>
> If you deem rebuilding the Knoppix DVD to boot in Adriane by default
> as to much work for too little benefit(Afterall, blind computer users
> are a rarity to begin with and blind power users lacking a competent
> assistant among the sighted are rarer still), I am willing to do the
> work myself if anyone could provide me with the guidance to avoid
> another coaster. My previous attempt at building an Adriane DVD of
> 7.4.1 went something like this:
> 1. Downloaded the image via bittorrent.
> 2. mounted the image using mount's loop option.
> 3. Copied the contents to a directory on my hard drive because mount
> refuses to mount the image in read-write mode.
> 4. Used chmod to change permissions because cp preserved the read-only
> permissions.
> 5. edit the default auto line near the top of
> /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg(one of the few files that differes between
> the standard and adriane versions of the 7.2.0 cd) to default adriane.
> 6. Rebuilt the image using genisoimage.
> 7. burnt the image to DVD with wodim.
> 8. Tried booting the disc, computer gives an "insert bootable disc" eror.
>
> Best I can reember, the failed boot was the first time I got an errors.
>
> On a related note, does anyone know if any efforts have been made to
> port Adriane upstream to Debian or of hard drive-targetted distros
> that attempt something similiar to Adriane? As much as I love Adriane,
> a live-only distribution really doesn't fit my needs, and running
> Knoppix from a hard drive makes me miss being able to run distros
> designed to be installed to hard drive.
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Jeffery Wright
> President Emeritus, Nu Nu Chapter, Phi Theta Kappa.
> Former Secretary, Student Government Association, College of the
> Albemarle.
>
>
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