[SATLUG] Knoppix = COOL!

[Mcconnell, Steve]

If you want to remaster your own version of KNOPPIX you can use these
instructions.  The original is  ~690M so if you want to add lots of stuff
you will have to remove applications you don't need.  Remember you only have
700M total.  It's really neat because you remaster the CD from itself.  This
is necessary because of the special "create_compressed_fs" commands used.

These instructions are what I used to remaster MY image, Your mileage may
vary.

Hard drive setup 
2 Gig partition  for swap /dev/hda1 
3 Gig partition for "source" development  /dev/hda2 
rest of drive  for master directory  /dev/hda3 
 
1. Boot with Knoppix CD.  Open Root shell.  (all commands below are run from
a Root shell) 
2. mkdir /mnt/source 
3. mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/source 
4. mkdir /mnt/master 
5. mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/master 
6. cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/source/KNOPPIX/
7. cp -Rp /cdrom/* /mnt/master/ 
8. rm /mnt/master/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX 
9. rm /mnt/master/KNOPPIX/boot.cat 
10. chroot /mnt/source/KNOPPIX/    (to add other applications)  If you want
to use apt, or the internet while chrooted you need to follow steps 10-2 and
10-3
	10-2.  mount -t proc /proc proc  (this is so things like ifconfig
work)
	10-3.  edit /etc/resolve.conf to add a name server.  ( This should
not be necessary if your DHCP server handles the DNS addressing)

11. Since my computer only had one CDROM drive, I used a NFS mount to point
to my cdburner so I added the following line to the /etc/fstab file.  
    burner.network.net:/bake    /mnt/burner   nfs   user,exec,suid,rw,soft
0  0

12.  Once all the changes are made run the following: 
    mkisofs  -R -l -V "KNOPPIX iso9660 filesystem" -hide-rr-moved -v
/mnt/source/KNOPPIX  | create_compressed_fs - 65536 >
/mnt/master/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX 

13. After this you are ready to make the final iso image so run the
following: 
    mkisofs -l -r -J -V "KNOPPIX-your_name" -hide-rr-moved -v -b
KNOPPIX/boot-en.img -c KNOPPIX/boot.cat -o /mnt/burner/knoppix-cd.iso
/mnt/master 

14.  Finally burn the iso image.  Use a 700MB CD.
 

Steve.

http://freegracebaptist.org
http://brim.net/~steve/index.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Carolan [mailto:sean@txid.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 11:31 AM
To: satlug@satlug.org
Subject: Re: [SATLUG] Knoppix = COOL!

You guys have peaked my interest in knoppix - I'm downloading it now from
the ftp server.  I had a cd distro called 'Demo Linux' which was ok, but not
so great at detecting bleeding edge hardware.  Nice way to show off a pretty
KDE desktop to a windoze user though.  I'm excited to try it out on my HP
ze1000 notebook and see if it can detect the linksys wireless card.

I'm embarrassed to say that I'm running Windoze XP on my notebook, because I
have to for work :(  At least I do some work on my RedHat web server, and a
backup server at home running Mandrake 8.2.  

On another note . . . one thing that I find amusing is going to CompUSA and
looking at the products like 'PC Anywhere'.  They claim that their
revolutionary software will allow you to administer your PC remotely over
the Internet.  Or there's another one that boasts about controlling more
than one PC with one keyboard and monitor.  Why is this so revolutionary? 
This has been possible on *nix systems since before I was born!

Kind of reminds me of that mac commercial (or maybe it was someone's sig
file) that went something like this:

"Windows 95 is like Macintosh 1987"

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