[ale] anyone doing LiveCD remastering?

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:12:51AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Preston Boyington wrote:
> > 
> >> I am involved in a couple of remastering projects and was wondering
> >> if anyone here does the same.  Mainly I am interested in projects
> >> that people have done using Debian based derivatives
> >> (Knoppix/Morphix/etc.). Especially with the result being a hard disk
> >> install and upgrade. 
> > 
> > David Hamm gave a great talk about a year ago at ALE central on
> > remastering Knoppix. He actually gave his talk off his remastered
> > Knoppix CD without accessing the HD, which I thought was pretty
> > slick. Perhaps we
> > could put the talk up at the ALE twikki -- provided it's okay with
> > David? Otherwise I can send you his OO present file off list, which
> > I think he'd
> > be fine with.
> > 
> > Ever since that talk, I've been meaning to try it myself, but never
> > got around to it, partly because of laziness, and partly because
> > I wanted to
> > wait for them to adopt a 2.6 kernel.
> > 
> Knoppix 3.4 has the 2.6 kernel as an option.

> also it doesn't use a boot.img for floppy emulation, it uses isolinux to boot instead.  this threw me for a loop until i found why my earlier mkisofs switches didn't work with 3.4.  now all is well.

	Yeah, I've been working on a remastering of Knoppix 3.4 for some
specialized applications.  Has not been for hard drive installation.
A few bones to pick over it, but nothing unusual (like why in heaven's name
are they still using "pump").  Had to dump some apps and install some
apps and then do some extensive cleanup.  But it works and I've got a
couple of machines now permanently running Knoppix (booted from the CD
though) as part of the development environment.  It's all running 2.6
exclusively and I had to reset the default in the bootup (Knoppix 3.4
has the 2.6 kernel but defaults to a 2.4 kernel).

	I LIKE the fact that they (and LNX-BBC and several others)
have now switched to isolinux instead of syslinux.  One less thing
I have to port and change and make work (isolinux has several features
like chain loading which were never implimented in syslinux).

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