First attempt at remaster failing. [SOLVED]

[Zore The Bore]

I thought I'd give this a try.

I ran df and had over 60% free on / and over 90% free on /home.
I ran Bleachbit and everything went fine.
I ran umount -a and everything went fine (obviously gave me the device busy error for the /home directory.).

I ran mylivecd my_namepclinuxos.iso

got a 1.8GB compressed file, which was fine for me as I planned to burn to DVDr

Burn the DVD with K3B. No probs there.

On boot from my new custom LiveCD, it halts on "ERROR: unable to mount loop filesystem." And then it drops me into a limited shell.

[Was_Just19]

It would help to know if the ISO would boot in a VM ....  VBox maybe ....

[Texstar]

You need 2.6.38 kernel or for older kernel use --lzma option as previously discussed in this area.

[Klinux]

I just had the same problem with kernel .33 I will now try to update to the latest kernel .38 (just to be sure, I mark the new kernel and unmark th eold one in synaptic right???)

[Was_Just19]

I just had the same problem with kernel .33 I will now try to update to the latest kernel .38 (just to be sure, I mark the new kernel and unmark th eold one in synaptic right???)

No ......  just install a new kernel as you would any application or package.
Do NOT do anything with the existing kernel.

[Klinux]

brown nuggets to late, stil lI have not reeboted, should I reinstall the old kernel, or do I have a big problem now?

[Texstar]

Install the new kernel. Boot into the new kernel. Make sure everything works with the new kernel. If everything works and you're happy then you can if you want remove the old kernel. Normally I leave the old kernel on my system for a few days or longer so just to make sure things are functioning properly with the new kernel.

[Klinux]

One of the reasons I like PClinuxOS against other big distro's (like the south African) one is that the Boss itself comes and help us, thanks Tex, I am gonna reboot now, hope the best

[Texstar]

One of the reasons I like PClinuxOS against other big distro's (like the south African) one is that the Boss itself comes and help us, thanks Tex, I am gonna reboot now, hope the best

crossing fingers!

[TO]

hi, i am not sure if i am in the correct thread, but i will try.
My customized PCLOS is freshly updated, incl. the kernel as mentioned here and i am trying to make an Live USB stick. To do that the PCLOS Live USB Creator expects (disappontingly) the SOURCE to be a LiveCD, not the INSTALLED on the computer OS.
Fine, then i go through (the described here - - not the old one with the --lzma command) the Konsole with 1:  umount -a   (enter; >busy, of course); 2:  mylivecd mynamecd.iso (enter) and after an hour or so comes the ERROR:

Creating compressed image:                         [100.00% 01:08:02/01:08:56]chmod: cannot access `/tmp/mylivecd.13254/livecd/livecd.sqfs': No such file or directory============================= ]
DIE
FATAL: Execution of 'chmod 644 /tmp/mylivecd.13254/livecd/livecd.sqfs' failed
ANY advise, pls?

[Was_Just19]

To do that the PCLOS Live USB Creator expects (disappontingly) the SOURCE to be a LiveCD, not the INSTALLED on the computer OS.

It accepts an ISO, or the files on a live CD.
To generate the ISO of your present system you need a successful remaster.

How much space is used and how much remains on your partitions for the creation of the remaster?

The output of

df

after the

umount -a

command will show it.

[Zore The Bore]

One of the reasons I like PClinuxOS against other big distro's (like the south African) one is that the Boss itself comes and help us

So True.

Okay, Texstar. Will install new kernel and see how it goes. Thanks for the heads up. Much appreciated.

[TO]

yes, live cd or iso; that's what i am trying to make and use.
space is:
df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6              15G   13G  956M  94% /

[Was_Just19]

yes, live cd or iso; that's what i am trying to make and use.
space is:
df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6              15G   13G  956M  94% /

You do not have space on that partition to create a remaster of a 13GB install.
I also do not know how large an ISO would be from the 13GB.

I suggest you use the mylivecd options to direct the tmp and the destination to another partition.
Also you may need to omit some folders to reduce the size.

There are threads about doing so which should help with that.


regards.

[TO]

of course, how stupid of me, i never knew how large the Thing has grown meanwhile.

ISO would be not just the OS, but the whole installed OS plus STORAGE etc., no? Well then i give up: i remember T instructing us that NO LARGER than 4G ISO/LIVE should come from a 10G original ...  13 comes too much. Thx, rgds, to