Re: Understanding 2010 Remastering

[drhadidy]

a little q....
if i have no enough space on my / partition and i want to keep my install as it is...
(have 10gig / partition and only 2gig free)
can i save the result remaster iso on a thumb drive for example instead of saving it on the / ?

[slax]

/usr/sbin/mylivecd --tmp /mnt/mydir /mnt/mydir/livecd.iso

[drhadidy]

/usr/sbin/mylivecd --tmp /mnt/mydir /mnt/mydir/livecd.iso

excuse me... is this a command line???
where and how to use it??

[Neal ManBear]

a little q....
if i have no enough space on my / partition and i want to keep my install as it is...
(have 10gig / partition and only 2gig free)
can i save the result remaster iso on a thumb drive for example instead of saving it on the / ?

Do you have a home partition (/home)? Or is this a monolithic partition (all on one)? If you have a separate /home, and you run the mylivecd script from it, your iso will be saved to your /home.

[drhadidy]

Do you have a home partition (/home)? Or is this a monolithic partition (all on one)? If you have a separate /home, and you run the mylivecd script from it, your iso will be saved to your /home.

no i dont have a separate /home partition... its not mounted out of / if thats hat u mean
i have 2 different mounted partitions...
1- /
2- /data

[Neal ManBear]

Then your /home is contained in the / (root) partition. When everything is on one partition, it is called a monolithic partition.

/usr/sbin/mylivecd --tmp /mnt/mydir /mnt/mydir/livecd.iso

excuse me... is this a command line???
where and how to use it??

Yes. In a terminal as root (su and give root password).

[drhadidy]

/usr/sbin/mylivecd --tmp /mnt/mydir /mnt/mydir/livecd.iso

excuse me... is this a command line???
where and how to use it??

Yes. In a terminal as root (su and give root password).

[/quote]

just to be 100% clear....
that was the command to write when i want to save the result iso in the usb flash drive rite???
but there are 2 points....
1- my flash drive is not showing in the /mnt
it shows in the /media folder
2- my flash drive is named "MO" this is how it shows in the file explorers(dolphin for example)
so how shall i write the command line then??

[Neal ManBear]

I've never done it this way, so you may want to wait on a response from slax to be sure.
I think it would be in this form --> /usr/sbin/mylivecd --tmp /media/mymedianame /media/mymedianame/livecd.iso

[slax]

@Neal
correct

@drhadidy
You can find other useful info and help by typing in console:

Code:

mylivecd --help

[drhadidy]

ok guys... be patient with me please im not that great with the commands...
in fact i never tried to make a command myself and always used to copy& paste... so reading the --help i understood the following:

1- (--tmp) part shows where to save the temporary files.... and by default it will go to /tmp
and writing --tmp /media/mymedianame in my command line will make it try to save the temp files in the flash drive instead.
2- when you say mymedianame as in (/media/mymedianame/livecd.iso) you mean the label name of the media...
and in my case it will be MO

so if i want to keep the temp files in the default /tmp directory and wanted to save the result final image in my USB flash drive labeled MO the command line will be as follows
/usr/sbin/mylivecd /media/MO/livecd.iso

(with the appropriate spaces and letter cases)
then ill have the remaster file called livecd.iso by the end??
waiting ur reply guys

[Neal ManBear]

Yes, I believe you understand.

[drhadidy]

DONE with success:-)
thx alot guys...

[longtom]

Thanx for that

[JJB]

Hello All,

I hope this is the proper way to get help on this remastering OS thread,  After having read all the posts on remastering with Mylivecd, I have been trying to make an .iso copy of PCLinuxOS-2010 Gnome which I have on two different machines and want to put on a third one. 

I have tried seven or eight times and get an .iso file that is somehow corrupted..  I'll give the procedure I followed on the PC with the largest-sized system. 

I have installed the PClinuxOS Gnome in two separate partitions, a root partition (/) and a home partition(/home). My OS is about 4.8GiB, taking up about 26% of the  / partition; I don't want to copy the /home partition, but I want to store the .iso file on the /home partition since there is plenty of room.

This is what I did:
1. In a terminal I wrote df to get the size of the files.
2. I ran BleachBit and BleachBit-Root.
3. Then as SU, I ran the following command;
4. umount -a
5. /usr/sbin/mylivecd –nodir =^/home/jjb /home/jjb/Downloads/PCL2010.iso

Everything seems to go well, and I get the .iso where it should be.  The size of the .iso file created is just over 2 GiB.

If I burn  it to a DVD using Brasero, I get a response which says “Success” at the end.  If I burn it with K3b, I get between 95-98% burn, and then an error message “Fatal Error”.  But neither the Brasero nor the K3b burns can be used.

What am I doing wrong?  Is the size of the files in the partition I'm trying to make into an .iso just too big?

Any comments or help will be appreciated.

jjb

[AS]

Everything seems to go well, and I get the .iso where it should be.  The size of the .iso file created is just over 2 GiB.

If I burn  it to a DVD using Brasero, I get a response which says “Success” at the end.  If I burn it with K3b, I get between 95-98% burn, and then an error message “Fatal Error”.  But neither the Brasero nor the K3b burns can be used.

The k3b issue has been already reported in the past, despite the error message apparently the disc was burned correctly, however consider using only brasero, until you solve this issue at least.

Once burned, at lowest possible speed, verify the disc md5sum, insert you media into the optical drive and in terminal write:
md5sum /home/jjb/Downloads/PCL2010.iso
md5sum /dev/sr0    (use /dev/sr1 if you load the disc in a second CD/DVD unit)
if the two results matches, your disc is correctly burned.

The fact the burned image doesn't work, most likely is due to some other cause. May be you are running an old kernel ?
If yes, most likely you want to use the mylivecd option --gzip or --lzma
(from terminal verify with:  uname  -r  )

Or, may be your system doesn't have enough RAM ?