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Remastering Howto

This howto will show you how to remaster Lamppix.

See also:

Knoppix Remastering Howto: http://knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto

Requirements


    * about 1 GiB free space on a Linux filesystem (ext2/3, xfs, reiserfs, ...)

    * about 512 MiB of free RAM (you can use swap as well)


Instructions

Getting Lamppix on your harddrive


   1. Boot from Lamppix

   2. Open a root shell

   3. Mount the partition you will use for remastering Lamppix, e.g.

          * mount /mnt/hda7



   4. Create a directory where we'll put all the files in

          * mkdir /mnt/hda7/lamppix



   5. ... and a second directory, where we'll put Lamppix' whole compressed filesystem

          * mkdir /mnt/hda7/lamppix/source

          * cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hda7/lamppix/source

          * Wait some minutes.



   6. Now: one more directory for the files of the CD

          * mkdir /mnt/hda7/lamppix/master

          * cd /cdrom; find . -size -10000k -type f -exec cp -p --parents {} /mnt/hda7/lamppix/master/ \;




Changing Lamppix' filesystem


   1. I suggest creating a remastering script. So ... choose your favourite editor and insert this script:




 #!/bin/bash



 if test `whoami` != 'root' ; then
        echo "You must be root to remaster LAMPPIX."
        exit
 fi



 CDROM=master
 BASE=source
 VERSION=1.1-myownversion
 echo "LAMPPIX" > $CDROM/lamppix/VERSION
 echo " ** Version:    " $VERSION >> $CDROM/lamppix/VERSION
 echo " ** Creation:   " `date +%Y-%m-%d` >> $CDROM/lamppix/VERSION



 # remember old hostname
 OLDHOSTNAME=$(hostname)
 # and set Lamppix' hostname
 hostname lamppix



 mount -o bind /proc $BASE/proc
 mount -o bind /dev $BASE/dev
 mount -o bind $CDROM $BASE/cdrom



 mv $BASE/home/lamppix $BASE/home/lamppix.old
 mv $BASE/etc/skel $BASE/home/lamppix
 chown -R 1001.50 $BASE/home/lamppix



 mkdir $BASE/ramdisk



 cd $BASE



 # run Lamppix boot script
 chroot . opt/lamppix/boot.sh



 # chroot into Lamppix
 chroot .



 # stop XAMPP and PostgreSQL
 chroot . opt/lampp/lampp stop
 chroot . usr/bin/killall postmaster
 sleep 5



 # remove all logs
 rm -rf opt/lampp/logs/*



 cd ..



 # remove postgresql data
 rm -Rf $BASE/opt/pgdata
 # remove some other files
 rm -f $BASE/home/lamppix/.bash_history
 rm -f $BASE/root/.bash_history



 mv $BASE/home/lamppix $BASE/etc/skel
 chown -R root.root $BASE/etc/skel
 mv $BASE/home/lamppix.old $BASE/home/lamppix



 rm -Rf $BASE/ramdisk
 rm -f $BASE/mnt/extern
 rm -Rf $BASE/var/tmp/*



 umount $BASE/proc
 umount $BASE/dev
 umount $BASE/cdrom



 # set back hostname
 hostname $OLDHOSTNAME




   1. Save the script as /mnt/hda7/lamppix/start_chroot and make it executable

          * chmod +x /mnt/hda7/lamppix/start_chroot



   2. Jump into your remastering root directory

          * cd /mnt/hda7/lamppix



   3. Run the script

          * ./start_chroot



   4. You are now chrooted. "/" is now /mnt/hda7/lamppix/source

   5. To configure your nameserver, edit /etc/resolv.conf

   6. Change Lamppix to your needs. Install software with apt-get. Look in KNOPPIX' remastering howto for more help.

   7. Type "exit" to leave the chrooted shell.


Creating the ISO image


   1. Finally, I use this shellscript to create the ISO image of my modifications:




 #!/bin/bash
 # creates the compressed KNOPPIX filesystem
 mkisofs -R source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX



 # calculate MD5 sums
 cd master
 rm -f KNOPPIX/md5sums
 find -type f -not -name md5sums -not -name boot.cat -exec md5sum {} \; \
      >> KNOPPIX/md5sums
 cd ..



 # create the image
 mkisofs -V "LAMPPIX" -r -J -b isolinux/isolinux.bin \
   -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \
   -boot-info-table -o lamppix-remastered.iso master