<Solved> Unable to create any Remaster from new 2010 iso

[Sefy]

Even when i install the new iso into a VBox and just add the required drakx installer for mylivecd, i always get udev errors of some sort like the attached image
I haven't touched any scripts or altered anything, just remastering from the new iso itself using nothing else but mylivecd with no command line options.
What am i doing wrong?  

[yalegodman]

same as my case.

I tried the command "mylivecd" command and failed countless times.

Finally, I used another command: remasterme.
It works well, the image worked out by this command is ok.

[Sefy]

Mmm... i didn't know remasterme was still available...
Anyway, i tried it now, but while mylivecd created a correct 1.8gb iso, the remasterme gave me a 1.4gb iso file which i'll test in a few min but i'm rather sure it will fail to boot  

EDIT: just as i suspected, remasterme is back to old 2009 issues, it creates a bad sized iso  
MORE INFO: i've run the remasterme in console mode, and this time it created a 3gb iso! i have no idea why it's so big but i'll test it once it's done copying..

[yalegodman]

Is there anything wrong with remaster?
I tried a few times on my remastered dvd burned from the iso file by remasterme command. It seems ok.

When I used mylivecd command, the remastered iso file is 1.4G, and the file by remasterme is only 1.2G.
I don't know why there is a gap of 200M.

Anyway, the 1.2G dvd can boot well, and softwares run well.

[Sefy]

while the remasterme iso booted ok and even logged in, it didn't respond well and i couldn't even install from it.
i've checked the remasterme script and saw it uses mylivecd with several command lines, so i'm trying without the --lzma command and i hope it will work.
i'm getting weird results in file sizes ranging from 1.4gb upto 3gb using the exact same machine without other changes...

[yalegodman]

Yes, the iso image from remasterme is only a livedvd, cannot install the system to harddisk.
I think that is ok, as all other applications run well except openoffice. (openoffice cannot open in this live OS)
In fact I'm now reply your post with this livedvd.

[menotu]

Have you installed  draklive-install on your system

[Sefy]

Yes, i have draklike-install on the remaster, that isn't the problem.
Any application i tried to run from the remaster, took ages to load, and i got kicked out to logon screen several times.
i'm getting very weird results with remasterme / mylivecd and i found that when using the --md5sum is what causes the errors in some of the iso's

So far i've been unable to create a single working iso 

[fishfillet]

All my remasters are from VBox installs.

I have one that has the 2.6.32.12 kernel and the other one has 2.6.33.4 kernel, both working, installable and usable.

What I did is to install PCLinuxOS, then do a full update via

$ apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

And then install all the applications I like (OOo, vlc, task-multimedia, etc.) including draklive-install (via Synaptic).

After then I reboot.

And then I configure my desktop to the way I like and then copy as root the ./kde4 folder of my home folder to /etc/skel/

$ cp -Rv /home/username/.kde4/ /etc/skel/

And then I reboot again (force of habit!).

And then I do bleachbit to weed out unnecessary files.

After that, I do the following:

$ umount -a
$ remasterme --lzma

(As pointed out by Sir Neal, --lzma is redundant so you may ignore that.)

And its works great, my friends love my remasters.

If ever this works for you, credit it to various posts here in the forums.

I hope this helps!


P.S.:  My partitions are usually / and swap only when doing my custom pclinuxos.

[Sefy]

When i get home, i'll follow your instructions to the letter!
i've never had problems before, god knows i did loads of remasters...

[Neal ManBear]

$ remasterme --lzma

Adding --lzma to remasterme is redundant. The mylivecd command that remasterme uses is:

mylivecd --md5sum --lzma --bootloader iso pclinuxos-2010.iso

Note that --lzma is in the script already. There is no need to add it. Use:

remasterme

If you need to exclude your home directory, add the exclusion. Otherwise, the single word is all you need.

[yalegodman]

I remasted my system with the command "remasterme", but openoffice cannot open in the remastered dvd, why?

[Neal ManBear]

Running live? Is there an error message?

[pinoc]

I remasted my system with the command "remasterme", but openoffice cannot open in the remastered dvd, why?

That is normal when in live-mode. OO works fine once the live-session is installed.
-p.

[Sefy]

I'm happy to say that thanks to your guys help, i've managed to create a first primary remaster which is fully updated 
Now i'll get cracking on the customizing part