After a couple of days, I've managed to get something working. It's not exactly what you were suggesting Ted, but it's also a combination of that and a lot of other posts i've read. Basically, it starts with a frugal install. Then when i'm remastering, i provide a few changes to system files 1. I mo...

Yep - i have done that.

when i boot off my lupu-510.sfs image, my rc.local contains the line to unmount /dev/sda1, but it starts up mounted.

i'm actually using BrowserLinux, which is based on Lupu 510.

Instead of the remaster script you linked to, I used the remaster LiveCD util and that built the SFS, but the drive still boots with sda1 mounted to /initrd/pup_ro1...

any thoughts?

@ted - I just tried running your script from the other thread, and I get the error message "Destination not block device or regular file" What I did was to boot from Live USB, set up everything perfectly. Rebooted and saved my changes. After reboot, I copied the script from http://murga-li...

i didn't know about it!

Will that force me to remaster onto a CD/DVD or can I still boot off the HDD?

Lots of great responses - thanks :) Probably should clarify that once configured, I don't want any of his session changes to be persisted, so if the save files were loaded into RAM that would be fine for me. If I then needed to tweak some changes, I'd boot off the livecd and mount the drive to make ...

Hi everyone I want to build a kid friendly web-kiosk for my 3yo to play one of his favourite websites. I've toyed with puppy the last few nights, and I think it's fantastic for this purpose, but the only catch is that there's no guarantee he'll shutdown the operating system cleanly. In fact if anyth...