How do you remaster for yourself ? :-) (Solved)

[melodie]

Hi,

I have bought a new machine !!! How long that had not happened to me, but finally I went through the act... In France we have a non for profit association (but which works with the rules of the entreprises) and which helps the people needing to get work by providing work to them... in the field of computer -- searching for words... - repair, re-re well old machines coming from enterprises which are still very good to use.

I bought a IBM Thinkpad T60, with dual core, 2 GB ram and a laaarge hard drive (320 MB compared to what I'm used to is huge, believe me !)

Now, I intend to reduce Windows, change it a bit to have multidesktops and a few nice other Free software, and install the system I have on my usual machine.

This is where it becomes a bit complicated : I have done quite a few isos for the others, but make one with my own system seems all of a sudden like unknown territory !

How do you do that ?

I have 2 partitions, well 3, one for / one for /home and one for swap, I put the big datas in one directory, cleaned, tried several command lines...

I have now:

$ df -m
Sys. de fichiers      1M-blocs   Utilisé    Dispo. Uti% Monté sur
/dev/sda6                 5909      4931       678  88% /
/dev/sda5                35054     23199     10075  70% /home

I have cleaned the system with bleachbit, removed all docs from /usr/share/docs, and... after a few tries, ended with this command:

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mylivecd --lzma --tmp=/home/melodie/SSH --md5sum --nodir=^/home/melodie/Documents,^/home/melodie/"VirtualBox VMs" pclinuxos-melodie-22-Juin-2011.iso
I was in my home directory when I started this command, and just before I had tried the same with "--gzip".

I don't talk about trials before where I was in the wrong place with not enough space for the iso and the temporary files... I realized that. It was after that I started the command lines in a way that was supposed to be ok with 10 GB of available disk space.

But each time it stayd stucked at 4 and a few % on the "compressing files" stage (a whole night !)

What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks.

Mélodie

[AS]

Hi Melodie,

This is where it becomes a bit complicated : I have done quite a few isos for the others, but make one with my own system seems all of a sudden like unknown territory !

quite funny!      

you need to exclude your --tmp using --nodir=^/home/melodie/SSH, I think this is the primary issue.
--md5sum it's not supported anymore ... it seems to me to have read some post about ...
finally, but you surely know about, the final ISO can't be larger than 4 Gb.

AS

[melodie]

Hi Melodie,

This is where it becomes a bit complicated : I have done quite a few isos for the others, but make one with my own system seems all of a sudden like unknown territory !

quite funny!      

you need to exclude your --tmp using --nodir=^/home/melodie/SSH, I think this is the primary issue.
--md5sum it's not supported anymore ... it seems to me to have read some post about ...
finally, but you surely know about, the final ISO can't be larger than 4 Gb.

AS

LOL !!!

Hi AS,

For isos for the others I had solved the complications long ago by not having more than one partition, with a small system, not having a X session running and login in as root in a tty, in /root. A simple command with nothing to exclude was enough.

Thanks, I  now feel I will succeed !

About the --md5sum... maybe a review of the "help" section in the mylivecd script could be thought about and suggested ?

Regards,
Mélodie

[AS]

About the --md5sum... maybe a review of the "help" section in the mylivecd script could be thought about and suggested ?

No, i misunderstood about, this was the thread:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,92649.msg778277.html#msg778277

AS

[melodie]

About the --md5sum... maybe a review of the "help" section in the mylivecd script could be thought about and suggested ?

No, i misunderstood about, this was the thread:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,92649.msg778277.html#msg778277

AS

Hi,

Here is the end of the story. I got it about md5sum : no check of cd at grub boot start so no need for the option. Then, had to obviously do a nodir on dirs and nofile on the iso file (in root directory, without any option, when there is space in /tmp and in /  generally, no need for all theses... )

I was very much moved to see my own usual install run as Live in USB stick ! Indeed the remaster was 2.2 GB and with Just19th program it has been so fast and easy... getting lazy now that all exists to ease the job !

Then the install went fine, except two very little details : I was surprised at post-install time to see the window asking me to create a new user. I had my user already, but it insisted heavily so I had to create one, would I want it or not. Else it would not go to the next step !
 
And the gfxboot is not recognized as being of the good format anymore after install. Neither is it in the usb stick... I can reinstall it I think and it will be ok.

Well this technic applied to own use is also really a very beautiful thing !

Thanks AS, and thanks to all for all this...

Regards,
Mélodie