Correct Steps To Re-Master

[Neal ManBear]

Use this command exactly as it is.    
mylivecd --nodir ^/home/ray/ ray.iso    
Make no alterations. You can use copy and paste.    
Copy and paste it to a text file to save it, if you want.    

edit: When you install draklive-install, mark mylivecd for reinstallation, too.     

[ff103]

Use this command exactly as it is.     
mylivecd --nodir ^/home/ray/ ray.iso     
Make no alterations. You can use copy and paste.     
Copy and paste it to a text file to save it, if you want.     

Thanks Neal, but this is where I'm confused, If I make a remaster with no /home/ray directory, when I boot from that remaster, what will I get? and if I install from that remaster what /home directory will I have? sorry, still confused

[Neal ManBear]

Use this command exactly as it is.     
mylivecd --nodir ^/home/ray/ ray.iso     
Make no alterations. You can use copy and paste.     
Copy and paste it to a text file to save it, if you want.     

Thanks Neal, but this is where I'm confused, If I make a remaster with no /home/ray directory, when I boot from that remaster, what will I get? and if I install from that remaster what /home directory will I have? sorry, still confused

     
Please note the edit I made to that post.     
If you have created a second user, "guest," and if you exclude /home/ray completely, you will have an iso with only one user, "guest," which will be removed on first boot after installing from your new iso.     
I've done this many times. So long as there is no problem in your system, this will work. Be sure you reinstall mylivecd. If for some reason it was corrupted and caused your previous problem, reinstallation should fix it.     

[ff103]

Thanks Neal, I just used your command(had to instal draklive-install) and it says it completed and made ray.iso, but I can't find it, wherre would it have put it? I used file search and it comes up empty ? any clues?

[OldGuy]

If you are using KDE, the iso is in your home directory, but you can only see it in command line (ls *.iso).

I relog as root to do my burn.  But you can drop to command line and start k3b as root too.

Hope that helps.

[Just17]

Thanks Neal, I just used your command(had to instal draklive-install) and it says it completed and made ray.iso, but I can't find it, wherre would it have put it? I used file search and it comes up empty ? any clues?

Try under

/root

[ff103]

sorry guys, I've looked everywhere and it doesn't show up anywhere. not in /home and not in /root.maybe I'm missing something.

[OldGuy]

If the remaster failed, you would not have an .iso built, at the end of remaster it says the size of the .iso.  Did you watch for that informatin?  If not, I would retry it following the suggested left above by others.

[AS]

sorry guys, I've looked everywhere and it doesn't show up anywhere. not in /home and not in /root.maybe I'm missing something.

If you have logged in as root when doing mylivecd, you should find the it under /root, if you typed in su, probably you will find it under /home/ray ...

if you still don't find it, open a terminal, su to root, (enter password), and type the following command:

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find  /   -iname    \*.iso

[johnmart]

ff103, I regularly remaster like you propose & what I found that works for me is;

1. create a guest account if you don't already have one
2. disable autologon if you use it
3. log out of user & logon as guest
4. run the bleachbits, umount -a
5. run your mylivecd command from a root terminal.

here's my last mylivecd command line;

mylivecd --nodir ^/home/john --gzip kde64-01.2012.iso

You will end up with your user account, but no files. I use this if I need to reinstall & preserve my user files which are on a separate partition. (the --gzip command is not necessary, just runs faster)
Works for me. 

[Neal ManBear]

To locate your iso ---     
locate ray.iso     

This will show you its location. It should be /home/ray/. If you logged out as ray and in as root (not necessary, just 'su' in terminal), then it will be in /root/.     

If you have a failed build, run bleachbit and bleachbit-root to clean up, as there will be leftover files.     

[old_guy]

Neal

If the iso was just created - you would have to run "updatedb" as root before you could "locate" it.

Earl

[ff103]

Thanks everyone for your help on this, I am pulling a 24 hr shift today at the station and won't be back at my home computer until tomorrow and I will try all of the above suggestions and report back. Thanks.

[Neal ManBear]

Neal

If the iso was just created - you would have to run "updatedb" as root before you could "locate" it.

Earl

     
Thanks, Earl.
Knew I was forgetting something but couldn't think what. Was nodding over the keyboard as I typed. LOL Took a little rest and came back to find you had added what I left out. Woohoo! Good thing you were sharp eyed and sharp minded today.      

[ff103]

O K , after doing the "update db" I tried "locate ray.iso" and got nothing, then I su to root and try "locate ray.iso" and i get "root". So I open dolphin and I look in /root and it is empty. so i open konqueror as root and I look in /root and there is "ray.iso" SO, I open dolphin and try to move ray.iso to /home/ray and it won't let me, so, I open konqueror as root in another window and I can move ray.iso to /home/ray. This might be why there is so much confusion(at least on my part) about doing a remaster. Why wouldn't it just put my remastered ray.iso in /home/ray where I could find it? Without everyone's help here I never would have located it and just assumed it had failed.Is there a way to make it put the finished iso in the home folder?