<SOLVED>2012.08 and mylivecd....

[gezza]

I have 2012.08 installed on a 750 GB sata2 drive.
df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1              25G  5.2G   18G  23% /
/dev/sdb2              20G  4.6G   16G  23% /home
I  have a temp folder on /mnt/data160ide
dev/sda1             149G   72G   70G  51% /mnt/data160ide
The problem I am facing is that after 1min 28 secs. I get an iso  of 61.6 MB on the dasta160ide drive.

Created '/mnt/data160ide/my32-2012.08_08092012.iso' (64,161,792 bytes) in 00:01:28
As one can see I have 9.8 GB that is used to create an iso.
Surley we have not yet got a compression the can create an iso of 60MB from 9.8GB.
Has anyone else had this problem with 2012.08, if not what do you think has gone wrong with my iso.
The line in question is:--
mylivecd --tmp=/mnt/data160ide/temp --nodir=^/mnt,^/media /mnt/data160ide/my32-2012.08_08092012.iso
Many thanks for your concideratons.
I have also tried putting the temp folder on a 160GB sata2 drive :
/dev/sdd1             149G  2.6G  139G   2% /mnt/data160-3.5
But the results are the same!!!!
Gezza
System:
ASUS M3N78-VM
4Gb ram
3 sata2 drives
1 sata dvd
Nvidia card
..................
All drives and ram test ok.
Is there a test for the cpu I can run???
Gezza

[ternor]

I haven't had that issue.  I haven't used any of the remasters.  The last one is 1.1 Gb.

I don't use 'umount -a'.  Perhaps I should.  My script creates the tmp and workdir folders on /data and that partition is excluded expressly as you have done.  I can't see any significant difference between what you do and what my script does.

There is a package 'smartmontools' which you have reminded me that I have not installed.  There is a gui 'gsmartcontrol'.

EDIT: I do use the tag --gzip.  Perhaps you need something like that.  FWIW, here is the line in my script:

mylivecd --md5sum --gzip --bootloader iso --nodir ^/data --nofile ^dead.letter --tmp=/data/rem --workdir=/data/workdir /data/isos/remaster-2012.iso

[gezza]

Hi ternor,
I have replaced the 750GB with a 160GB drive, set the system toonboard video and removed the Nvidia card.
I still get the same problem.
Do you think the power supply could cause the to happen?

As I said, I have tested all components except the cpu and power supply.
Gezza

[Just17]

To test, I would do the following .....

umount -a
mylivecd   --gzip   --nodir=^/home/<your user name>  --volumeid Test_ISO    /test.iso

If that completes without error then you have a base to start from in solving the problem.

[jimwilk]

The September 2012 issue of PCLinuxOS magazine - which I downloaded today - has a tutorial on remastering. From a brief read of it this morning, it appears very clearly and carefully written. Check it out.

Jim

[taelti]

The September 2012 issue of PCLinuxOS magazine - which I downloaded today - has a tutorial on remastering. From a brief read of it this morning, it appears very clearly and carefully written. Check it out.

Jim

It is quite excellent. I have just made a working remaster following those instructions. Finally!