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nic007 · Posted: Sun 05 Aug 2018, 08:43 Post subject: nicOS-Remaster-Suite

Attached nicOS-Remaster-Suite.sfs, a suite of three tools to remaster new and old puppy's.

johnywhy · Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 882

i ran the Pristine script. Got the Success message, but did not get an iso in /

I enlarged my save-file from 2 GB to 6 GB, and ran it again, but still no iso.

i don't know how to check the size of /

thx!

nic007 · Posted: Tue 07 Aug 2018, 14:30 Post subject:

The working directory is /, if not so this auto script won't work. What is the path of your root directory? Does the built in remaster script in the menu work for you because this script is based on it?

johnywhy · Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 882

nic007 · Posted: Wed 08 Aug 2018, 02:37 Post subject:

It looks like the remaster is done correctly but the problem occurs when to make the iso. Check the size of the base sfs in /initrd/mnt/dev_save/puppylivecdbuild. If it looks right, then the remaster was probably successful. With the auto script the remaster is actually done in /PuppyRemaster but you won't see this folder with the files because it is automatically deleted when the ISO is created/supposed to be created. The auto version is a "no user input" version with preset default settings (that's the whole idea behind being automatic), you need enough free space in your savefile for the operation. Normally there is an icon in the tray which indicates the free space you have available, check it.
Back to the ISO problem - you need the executable "genisoimage" and the link to that file ie."mkisofs" on your system to make iso's. Check if you have it (it's normally in /usr/bin).

johnywhy · Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 882

nic007 · Posted: Wed 08 Aug 2018, 22:31 Post subject:

That size is wrong, the remaster has obviously not been done correctly. In the example you mention, you have a partition of a drive as the working area so size should normally not be an issue (how big is that partition?). I'm running out of ideas of what could be wrong, just a few things:

1. On what media is your frugal installation (harddrive, flashdrive) and what filesystem is that drive? When you have a savefile in operation the partition with your puppy files is normally called /mnt/home.
2. You say that you reckon the remastered base SFS should be around 200MB. That can't be. It looks like you have used around 1GB of your savefile capacity (1GB of the 6GB) Your remastered base sfs (which includes the contents of the savefile) should be more than 500MB.
3. Your savefile is so large that many things could have gone wrong by now. Boot without the savefile and do a remaster with the builtin remaster tool from the menu so we can at least see if that tool works with your distribution. X-Tahr is not an officially released version of Puppy but a puplet made by a user so some things may not work correctly.

johnywhy · Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 882

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bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12982 Location: S.C. USA

These scripts are small enough you could offer them as pet packages.
The forum will allow a pet package attachment to a post.
There is max size limit of 256K.

ITSMERSH · Joined: 02 May 2018 Posts: 911

nic007 · Posted: Thu 09 Aug 2018, 09:52 Post subject:

johnywhy · Joined: 20 Aug 2011 Posts: 882

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 12982 Location: S.C. USA

Used Auto-Remaster-ISO-Pristine to make a remaster of Xenialpup 7.5 UEFI.

Wondering if this really does have all the needed stuff to boot on any computer.

Notice the difference in what is in the iso's

rockedge · Posted: Thu 09 Aug 2018, 15:42 Post subject:

I am definitely going to try out the script! Try to remaster a LAMP-ZoneMinder install on a Xenial 7.5 32 bit. See how it goes......