Remastering Knoppix

Quick notes on how I made a remastered Knoppix for David Wales.

Get a Linux workstation, the most powerful you can get your hands on as this is CPU and memory intensive.

Install KNOPPIX on the hard drive (you'll need this for testing later). I did this in the root partition of my workstation which was /dev/hda6 . Copy the /KNOPPIX directory from the KNOPPIX CD into / . Copy the CD's autorun.*, cdrom.ico, and index.html files into / . From the CD's /boot/isolinux directory copy linux and minirt.gz into somewhere handy; I use /harddrive_boot .

Make lilo.conf boot the 'linux' kernel with minirt.gz as initd, and with some boot options maybe? I forget FIXME

Then I booted the KNOPPIX distro and made three directories to work in: KNOPPIX_original, KNOPPIX-remastered, and masterISO . Copy the contents of /KNOPPIX into both KNOPPIX_ directories, preserving permissions and ownerships. Chroot into KNOPPIX-rematsered and make your changes.

Then exit and rebuild the compressed KNOPPIX file.

Then boot up your original OS and copy the new compressed file over your old /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX . Boot the new distro to test.