livecd

[ryoung]

hi all, i have created a livecd .iso of my pclos2010 the way i like it...i omitted the /home/ry directory and used unetbootin to burn file onto a usb. i booted from usb and a whole "new" desktop and everything ? where did i screw up? i was under the impression the mylivecd program would make an exact copy of my environment(wallpapers, app changes, etc. etc.)...at any rate, i really like this linux stuff!!!! thanks for any help in advance.

rich

[Old-Polack]

hi all, i have created a livecd .iso of my pclos2010 the way i like it...i omitted the /home/ry directory and used unetbootin to burn file onto a usb. i booted from usb and a whole "new" desktop and everything ? where did i screw up? i was under the impression the mylivecd program would make an exact copy of my environment(wallpapers, app changes, etc. etc.)...at any rate, i really like this linux stuff!!!! thanks for any help in advance.

rich

You omitted your home directory, which contains all the settings that make your environment what it is. Now you have the new user default environment on your remastered liveCD.

[ryoung]

aha...ok thanks old-polack.....i must have misunderstood some of my readings about this. i thought omitting the /home/ry would only leave out my mp3s , pics etc. and whatnot to save space.

[Old-Polack]

aha...ok thanks old-polack.....i must have misunderstood some of my readings about this. i thought omitting the /home/ry would only leave out my mp3s , pics etc. and whatnot to save space.

I keep everything I have in separate partitions that I then mount in / or in my /home/polack directory. The command umount -a will unmount them all, leaving my rather bare /home/polack directory, which I can then include in a remaster, It all depends on how you store your personal data. If it's in /home/<you> then /home/<you> is probably too big to include in a remaster. If it's in /home/<you>/mystuff, and a separate partition is mounted on /home/<you>/mystuff, then unmounting the partition leaves just an empty directory there. All your stuff is still safe on the partition, but it won't be included in the remaster.

[sammy2fish]

The first time I did a remaster, about a year ago, it didn't work.  It booted and went through the whole install process until the very last part, then just quit, weird...  That was using the defaults.

More recently, I did a remaster about a month ago.  I killed the temp, history, and cache files before making my live-cd.  It was 2-gigs mind you, but I had left some music and pictures in /home.

Did a wipe and install a week and a half ago.  Everything came back like it was suppose to.  No hours and hours spent making it to where I like it.

You'd think Mac and Windoze would catch onto something like this.....

[johnmart]

Hi ryoung,
You can preserve your settings & exclude directories from your remaster with;

--nodir ^/home/ry/whatever

so your command line could be something like;

mylivecd --nodir ^/home/ry/music,^/home/ry/movies myremaster.iso

note multiple excluded dirs connected with comma, no space.
remember to check Neal's sticky at the top of this section.  

Have fun!!
btw, welcome to the forum!
John