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jam · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 245

WhoDo,

Downloaded the latest 2.15 CE release with the new patches included. I then installed to HD, made the necessary customizations, and then attempted a Dougal enhanced remaster. It went through the entire process error-free, created the ISO, but when I attempted to boot off of the new LiveCD it failed when mounting UnionFS. Not sure if you already have a workaround/patch for this, but I thought I'd document it so you're aware of it.

WhoDo · Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2007, 19:34 Post subject: Re: Dougal Remaster Issue

jam · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 245

WhoDo,

I've made remasters in the past without incident using the LiveCD with changes made in RAM, so I'm familiar with the process and I was actually involved in helping Dougal test his remaster script, but this is the first time I attempted to create the remaster using customizations that were made AFTER the HD install since I'm creating this on a machine with low memory resources. Went through this several times before I posted so I'm reluctant to point the finger at a bad burn, but I'll try to use your recommended parameter setting to see if this solves the problem. Now back to "sucking eggs"! Smile

Lobster · Posted: Fri 13 Apr 2007, 01:33 Post subject:

I managed to use Dougals remaster script with Puppy Final (second release)

Here is the process
http://tmxxine.com/Wikka/wikka.php?wakka=LinuxTmxxine009

Hope that helps Smile

jam · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 245

Lobster,

Did you try this remaster after an HD install? That's my problem. Remastering in RAM from a pristine or customized/remastered LiveCD has never been a problem - it has always worked flawlessly.

I'll be making some attempts at this again today and will report back with findings.

As always, thanks for any info you can provide.

Lobster · Posted: Fri 13 Apr 2007, 12:44 Post subject: Re: Dougal Remaster

setecio · Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 326 Location: UK

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5032 Location: Australia

I just discovered that the updated "alsaconf" which I provided is the "standard" version, and is wrong for Puppy.
I gave details here - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=110400#110400
and I provided a dotpet of Barry's Puppy-compatible version, to fix the problem.

Sorry, the next version of 2.15 will need to have this fix.
And the speaker-test wav files in /usr/share/sounds/alsa/ are not needed and should be deleted. This will save 1 MB of space.

And I also suggest that the audio modules package posted here -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=104547#104547
not be included in 2.15's filesystem, since this appears to be a very inelegant workaround for the ALSA setup problem.

WhoDo · Posted: Sat 14 Apr 2007, 19:01 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Sat 14 Apr 2007, 19:04 Post subject:

tempestuous · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 5032 Location: Australia

"Inelegant" in this case means that Puppy is unnecessarily bloated in size, by approx 3MB.

Ever since version 2.12, Puppy has had an innovative system of keeping the full collection of kernel modules in a separate "zdrv" file, outside the main filesystem.
These modules are then installed in the filesystem "on-demand".

That package installs the full collection of ALSA audio modules (plus a few others) into the filesystem, thus partially negating the value of the zdrv system, and undoing Barry's good work.

I recommend the removal of these modules, because they are already available from the zdrv file.

Of course, removal would be a tedious process because there are so many of them. It would be easier just to delete the entire /lib/modules directory, then replace the original /lib/modules directory from an uncompressed 2.14 squashfile.