How Long Will It Take To Run 'mylivecd' .(Got There,Solved. )

[pclinmike]

I'm attempting to make a back up live cd (DVD) for my daughters acer 5738Z laptop 2Ghz,4Gb ram..
#unmame -r  2.6.38.7-pclos1.pae.bfs
# df -l = / used 4.3G  (11G Avail)  /home 5.4G (124G Avail)

#mylivecd --tmp /home/remasters acer_laptop22062011.iso

Its now been running for more than 24hrs    (I can see HD light flashing so its still running).

I have seen this    http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,89314.0.html

But 24hrs !. Is this normal ?.

I will try  'mylivecd --gzip' the next time I do it !.

[menotu]

That seems far, far too long Michael Mine normally take approx 30 minutes

Did you run bleachbit to clean out "old stuff" including your tmp?

Also, did you run umount -a before beginning?  (it normally throws up a message but that is normal)

I would consider stopping the current one - do a thorough clean out, including the "current" mylivecd iso if one was created, and start again

[pupthai]

Can you send the iso to /home and not ^no dir  the home - will that be a loop endless?  never tried to keep home and and send it there too.

[AndrzejL]

I once waited several hours (overnight) and gave up. It turns out I was inside a loop.

That's how my remaster command looks like:

mylivecd --xz --nodir ^/Remaster/,^/archives/,^/mnt,^/media,^/root/tmp,^/tmp,^/home/andrzejl/Desktop/,^/DVD,^/root/livecd --nofile ^/var/log/*,^/etc/X11/xorg.conf,^/etc/X11/XF86Config,^/etc/modprobe.conf,^/etc/modeprobe.preload,^/etc/fstab,^/var/cache/apt/archives/* --tmp=/Remaster/ --md5sum --ufs unionfs /Remaster/andrzejl.iso

It's pretty self explanatory. I could simplify it.

mylivecd --xz --nodir ^/Remaster/ --tmp=/Remaster/ --md5sum --ufs unionfs /Remaster/andrzejl.iso

This way folder where the temporary files are going and the folder where iso will be created is excluded from the remastering process.

It worked fine last time I checked.

Regards.

Andy

[pclinmike]

Yes it's in a loop  .
I will get back.

[pclinmike]

I have tried four times, I'm still doing something wrong !.


# mylivecd --gzip --nodir ^/home/remasters --tmp /home/remasters acer_laptop23062011.iso

mylivecd, version 0.9.4, http://pclinuxos.com/
Copyright (C) 2010, Texstar <texstar at gmail.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Disabling Services not needed on the LiveCD

running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list


Creating initrd:                                   [100.00% 00:00:07/00:00:07]
Setting filesystem parameters:                     [100.00% 00:00:04/00:00:04]
Creating compressed image:                         [100.00% 00:14:10/00:14:10]
Creating isolinux boot:                            [100.00% 00:00:01/00:00:01]
Creating final iso:                                [100.00% 00:00:00/00:00:00]

Restoring Services on the installed system

ls: cannot access acer_laptop23062011.iso: No such file or directory
Argument "" isn't numeric in division (/) at /usr/sbin/mylivecd line 244.

Created 'acer_laptop23062011.iso' (0,000 bytes) in 00:14:25

[AndrzejL]

The amount of data or the compression method that You chose...

You were trying to create a livedvd bigger then 4.3 GB. Try changing --gzip to --xz or use the --nodir switch to exclude some of the large folder like /home/pclinmike/piratedmusic/ or /media/illegaldvdcollection/ .

Regards.

Andy

[pclinmike]

The amount of data or the compression method that You chose...

You were trying to create a livedvd bigger then 4.3 GB. Try changing --gzip to --xz or use the --nodir switch to exclude some of the large folder like /home/pclinmike/piratedmusic/ or /media/illegaldvdcollection/ .

Regards.

Andy

Just to make it clear I DO NOT have any 'piratedmusic' or 'illegaldvdcollection'   
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Is that what this means   
 ls: cannot access acer_laptop23062011.iso: No such file or directory
Argument "" isn't numeric in division (/) at /usr/sbin/mylivecd line 244.
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line 244=     $n = $n/1000;

[AndrzejL]

The amount of data or the compression method that You chose...

You were trying to create a livedvd bigger then 4.3 GB. Try changing --gzip to --xz or use the --nodir switch to exclude some of the large folder like /home/pclinmike/piratedmusic/ or /media/illegaldvdcollection/ .

Regards.

Andy

Just to make it clear I DO NOT have any 'piratedmusic' or 'illegaldvdcollection'   
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Is that what this means   
 ls: cannot access acer_laptop23062011.iso: No such file or directory
Argument "" isn't numeric in division (/) at /usr/sbin/mylivecd line 244.
---------------------------------

line 244=     $n = $n/1000;

LOL at the clarification . You fell a victim to one of my practical pranks... BAZINGA!

Answering Your question - yes. The iso was not created as the size 4.3 GB was exceeded hence there is not file. Hence the numeric division failed.

Regards.

Andy

[pclinmike]

Success    it burnt ok and tests ok.

# mylivecd --gzip --nodir ^/home/remasters,^/home/namechanged/Pictures --tmp /home/remasters acer_laptop23062011.iso
mylivecd, version 0.9.4, http://pclinuxos.com/
Copyright (C) 2010, Texstar <texstar at gmail.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Disabling Services not needed on the LiveCD

running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list


Creating initrd:                                   [100.00% 00:00:07/00:00:07]
Setting filesystem parameters:                     [100.00% 00:00:04/00:00:04]
Creating compressed image:                         [100.00% 00:11:18/00:11:18]
Creating isolinux boot:                            [100.00% 00:00:00/00:00:00]
Creating final iso:                                [100.00% 00:02:18/00:02:18]

Restoring Services on the installed system


Created 'acer_laptop23062011.iso' (2898,083,840 bytes) in 00:13:50


As you can see from above I removed my daughters photos from the remaster some 3.5G and it worked ok.

Thanks for your help, I have learn't a bit more.

[AndrzejL]

Cool beans... Glad we could help.

Burn separate dvd with those pics to backup them and You're all done.

On the sad note... You don't trust us... and now we will never know what's Your daughters name... You changed the info...

Andy