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Author Topic: Tutorial on making a remastered liveCD. Tricks, considerations and common issues  (Read 10473 times)
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« Reply #90 on: October 23, 2009, 01:28:33 PM »

I just tried making a livecd - without home - and it worked fine with poor man's install.
I'll try to find time for the complete livecd later.
I'm running 2.6.26.8.tex3 fully updated and using testing.
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« Reply #91 on: October 23, 2009, 07:05:56 PM »





..or without /home:
Code:
umount -a
mklivecd --root / --tmp /tmp --workdir /root/tmp/livecd/ --nodir ^/tmp,^/root/livecd_iso/,^/root/temp/livecd/,^/mnt,^/media,^/home /root/livecd_iso/livecd.iso


At least I thought it had worked.However when I boot from the cd I get the Gnome boot screen but as soon as it fully loads turns into KDE desktop minus all my backup files.How weird is that!
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« Reply #92 on: December 26, 2009, 11:35:04 AM »

I took a latest update full backup of making a live cd.
Ran that in a another desktop pc, and used VirtualBox (XP) to run it. It didn't work, instead it gave some messages and stopped in the middle of the boot process. Is there a way to find out which is wrong? The backup was in my laptop, the ISO i ran in the Vbox is in a desktop pc. Everything was upto date.

Do i need to check up anything?

Thanks!
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« Reply #93 on: December 28, 2009, 04:28:43 PM »

As far as I know remasters don't work out of the box with VirtualBox, because it requires specific video card drivers that are usually not present in an installation. I believe you'll find some instructions here:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,59694.0.html
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« Reply #94 on: January 01, 2010, 09:39:45 AM »

Gagarin Gambit
Thanks, will try.
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« Reply #95 on: January 02, 2010, 10:12:20 AM »

I believe you'll find some instructions here:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,59694.0.html


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Hi,

The first 2 are absolutely necessary, the 2 other ones are for comfort : if you install the guest additions in the virtual machine, and have theses, you can go to and from with the mouse, without freeing the mouse to get out of the virtual machine each time. And additionnally, you can even do some copy paste in both directions.

If you have to reconfigure X, additionnally to what Texstar said in his post, I have used successfully the ncurse version of the PCC. For example, you can't get the server to work, you can login as root in a tty by actionning the keys "Right Ctrl+F1" or "Right Ctrl+F2" and so on, same as in a normal machine up to F6 and F7 makes you come back to the X display.

Then once logged as root in a tty, you can do:
drak<tab>

which will give you the list of all available commands. A few, when invoked, will tell you they don't work without a X display, the others will allow you to reconfigure a bench of things. drakconnet for the network...

Here are a few screenshots:
The list of the possible commands

Some commands that don't work in console


Well, drakconf is a right choice for console though.

And so on... just look at them number by number:
http://melodie.tyruiop.org/PCLinuxOS/captures/Drakconf


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« Reply #96 on: January 20, 2010, 09:40:23 PM »

Hello People Smiley. It's me again  Cool. Well.. I'm new to the make your own remastering disc. I've played with a few Isos and they boot fine Smiley.
However, I want to know what I need to do in order to get the install option for the remastered disc. I mean is there an mklivecd command line option for that or what?

A little help goes a long way. Thanks  Grin
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« Reply #97 on: January 20, 2010, 10:43:01 PM »

Unless you removed it, you have draklive-install. In a terminal type:
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draklive-install

Type <Enter> and you're good to go.

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« Reply #98 on: January 22, 2010, 02:14:52 AM »

If you no longer have the desktop links, you can easily recreate them..  before remastering right click on your desktop (or in any other directory) and select the option to create a new link to an application; set it to run draklive-install, click the icon to change it, and set any other options you desire.

If you want it to show up for all newly created user, put it in /etc/skel/Desktop before remastering.
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« Reply #99 on: February 07, 2010, 05:02:37 PM »

I don't get what I'm doing wrong, but my remasters always boot and won't find the xorg server or what ever it is. They simply do not work.
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« Reply #100 on: February 09, 2010, 08:48:45 PM »

Welcome to the formus!

If you can provide a more specific error message we may be able to help, but based on the info provided we can not do anything more than take a wild guess..  Lips Sealed Undecided Wink


..my first guess / suggestion would be to add the word "vesa" to the end of your grub (boot menu) options, and see if that works.
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