Remaster the DSL CD

Remastering is a process where you rebuild the DSL CD with specific programs and settings that you need. You make the DSL CD to what you want

Preparing to Remaster

There are several things that you will need to make this happen. The setup is important because if you don't setup right you will be fighting it all the way.

Remaster Computer

This computer is a place that you can build your specific settings for the CD and you can then save to the hard drive on a prepared partition.

1. Partition for Your Specific Settings - this is where you will keep MyDSL programs, files, documents, anything you want to have burned into the CD. The size is reflective of what you will add. The size should be 1 MB or bigger.

2. Partition to Create the Build - this is where you will place your source and build the actual iso image. This should be at least 5 MB as you will want to keep several isos possibly.

3. Live CD - probably the easiest is to build the iso from the Live CD as you will have everything you need from the CD. The CDROM should be a good quality CDROM and CD so you can eliminate any errors. An old one that is flakey, may cost you a lot of time...I know. Make sure you cehck the CD with a md5sum from the dsl download site to verify that the CD you start with is perfect!

md5sum /dev/cdrom

1c3a4ccdc34adcf8bfad7ac2495764ba # This is for dsl-2.3.iso

Burn CDs Computer

You will need to be able to burn the iso image that is created on a CD. This can be on the Remaster Computer or it can be a separate computer. If it is a separate computer it is best to network the computers to make it easy to move information.

This is a detailed outline that you need to follow closely. There may be many ways to do this...this is just one that worked. Note that this is setup for new versions, some of the earlier versions had a different file structure.

Boot the Live CD on the Remaster Machine

Mount All Needed Partitions

Open a terminal and become root with this command:

sudo su

Mount the two partitions you will use.

Note that the partitions are mounted read/write. These parttions should be formatted as ext2 file systems.

mount -rw /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 # the MyDSL partiton

mount -rw /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 # the Remaster partition

Create Needed Directories on Remaster Partition

mkdir /mnt/hda3/source newcd newcd/KNOPPIX

Copy Files from CD to New Directories

The -Rp option copies all files in the dirctory and copies the current permissions.

cp -Rp /cdrom/boot newcd

cp -Rp /cdrom/lost+found newcd

cp -Rp /cdrom/index.html newcd

cp -Rp /cdrom/KNOPPIX/* source

cp -Rp /cdrom/.bash_profile source

Copy Personal Settings From /mnt/hda2

Move Into /mnt/hda3 Move your working directory into the remaster partition so you do not need to type all of the file paths.

cd /mnt/hda3

Create a Compressed Image File

mkisofs -R source |create_compressed_fs - 65536 > newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

Create iso Image

mkisofs -no-pad -l -r -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat -hide-rr-moved -o mydsl.iso newcd

Move the New iso Image

This should create an iso image called mydsl.iso. Copy or move it to a location to be burned.

Qemu ReMaster

ReMaster a CD and then take the KNOPPIX file off of the ReMaster and exchange it for the Qemu version. Then you should be running your own ReMaster in Qemu.