Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Flash]

Foo, you're able to boot a Puppy CD, use it to remaster a new CD, and the remastered CD won't boot on the same machine?

[nameless foo]

I can boot any Puppy CD that I have burned with an iso that I download but when I remaster the CD and burn a CD with the created iso it will load vmlinuz and image.gz and after it scrools thru the hardware identifaction I get a kernel panic init not found

[nameless foo]

Apparently something dosen't like my IDE HDDs that are connected to the primary IDE. I disabled the primary IDE in the bios booted the multisession CD and everything works fine. Go figure!

[WiZard]

Hi Alienx
Thanks for writng your scripts. I tried all three and found that your first one suits my needs the best. Only having one problem. When I boot from remaster & choose 1 to save data everything is fine. When I choose 2 don't save data it scrools through all the boot and then ask for a password. Is something wrong here or do I need a password?

Thanks

[Guest]

Hmm, that's puzzling. As far as I know, Puppy only asks for a password when it finds a corrupt pup001 during the boot process. Even though you're using the option to boot without saving to HD, I'd say check your hard drive for pup001 files that aren't supposed to be there.

Another thing: would you please give a link to the post with the Alienx scripts in it? It's much more difficult to help you if we have to guess what you're doing. Thanks.

[Alienx]

[WiZard]

Thanks Guest, your clue was enough to fix it. My hda1 drive did have a PUP001 file on it, although it is not corrupt. I disconnected the HD and booted the remaster from CD, choose 2 don't save, and it booted right up.

How do I leave a link to a previous post?

[Flash]

[WiZard]

Thanks Flash, I agree that this makes things a lot clearer, I'll include in future postings.

[http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=14806#14806]

[kirkx]

Alienx,

Your script works great! THANKS

[Alienx]

Tip for low ram users:

as said before we can install everything: pupgets, dotpups, own files etc

most of dotpups installs on /root/my-applications and then go to image.gz on remaster

after boot image.gz goes to ramdisk and if it is big this is bad for low ram systems

but there s an easy solution...

before using script move folder /root/my-applications to /usr and symlink it back to /root

also you can populate folder /root/.fonts with lots and lots of fonts and do the same:

move it to /usr and symlink it to root

files that are on /usr are compressed in usr_cram.fs and don't use much memory, that's why people with few ram should do this


IMPORTANT:


Puppy 1.0.5 do not use scsi emulation anymore

so we don't need now this line on script

echo on > $WORKDIR/image-new/root0/.etc/scsiemul

here is an updated version without it

[gliezl]

I tried your script, I got only 18MB of if ISO. "no space left on device' but I got 128 RAM + 256 Swap. Do I still need to edit usr_cram.fs? I got Mozilla themes & wine installed. I created symlinks to /usr from /root0 of /mnt/image, am i doing it correctly?

This is Live CD running with PUP001 save to /dev/hda1 which is windows.

[Alienx]

the tip about symlinking is optionall , not necessary

in fact it's safer just install what you and run script

symlinking is useful only in this situation: user installs a lot of big things on /root (like 50 mb java) and the computer has few memory

wine installs to /usr, only small .wine rests on /root and mozilla themes are not so big

[gliezl]

but i noticed that the ISO is 53MB and I have installed WINE & some themes for mozilla. Did the script created the right ISO size? so do i need to uncompressed image.gz & usr_cram.fs? Or just proceed with the script?

[Alienx]