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How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

Hi all,

How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

If so how do i do, and if i have added for example my own icons etc will that

also be transfered to Live-Iso?

Sincerally

Martin aka Ztealmax

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

Hi,

RTFM :-) Tazlito manual is installed on each SliTaz distro and is also online

http://hg.slitaz.org/tazlito/raw-file/tip/doc/tazlito.en.html

Look at writeiso command also in the tazlito-wiz GUI (Menu --> system tools --> Create LiveCD) your have a writeiso button

Hugs,

- Christophe

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

This doesn't seem to work as suggested. It may work when 'not installed' but when running in RAM.

I have 4.0 installed and when I try Menu> System> Tools> Create LiveCD> writeISO .....it goes thru a process but  then I get to a message that tells me about having to have a 'liveCD' in the CDdrive, which is there, and I am invited to put one in.....and then to press enter to continue!    When I press enter...everythig disappears.

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

@plumtreed

The Write ISO button made an iso here.

Try it from terminal.

Open terminal,su, password: root

If you have a slitaz cd put it drive. otherwise loop mount the slitaz iso to /media/cdrom

tazlito writeiso gzip

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

Thanks for your reply but exacty the same thing happens.

Slitaz 4.0 is installed and I have a working CD liveiso in the CD drive.

mojo

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

The terminal crash's ?

Maybe your system is running out of hard memory.

plumtreed

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

When invited to proceed by pressing enter the terminal crashes.

I am using only 461MIb on 2gb USB drive.........external to an eeePC701

I have used this process previously and successfully with version 3.0 but only as a live cd running in RAM

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

This is a full install or a frugal/live install of slitaz-4.0 on the flash drive?

How much ram does the computer have?

plumtreed

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

This is a full install on the flash drive and I have the original 512RAM

plumtreed

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

.........and the terminal doesn't 'crash' it reverts back to the root prompt #

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

I can create an iso with a live session from a liveCD and I have accomplished what I wanted to do, but, ... It doesn't seem possible to create an iso when installed to a 'drive', albeit a usb flashdrive.

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

Yeah there's all kinds of problems with it dude. It'd be cool if it actually worked.

When I use tazlito writeiso etc. it starts writing, (at least it says it is) it gets up to about 24M then the entire background vanishes, and it reboots to a login. After logging in it's a corrupt system where some of the apps work and some don't, but most importantly, there's no .iso file! lol

So it's got bugs in it and you're not the only one who has problems with it. It would be cool if it worked like they say it should though.

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

The one problem I had when running [c]tazlito writeiso lzma[/c] on a full install is tazlito is unable to auto mount the livecd to copy over the bootloader files and kernel.

Which returns this message:

When SliTaz is running in RAM the kernel and bootloader files are kept

on the cdrom. Please insert a LiveCD or loop mount the slitaz.iso to

/media/cdrom to let Tazlito copy the files.

So I did this:

Find the drive.name: cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info

mount drive.name /media/cdrom

Reran [c]tazlito writeiso lzma[/c] and it made the iso.

If the user has no cdrom drive in their computer: "user can also loop mount the slitaz.iso to /media/cdrom".

The reason for tazlito mount failure is when you run the Slitaz livecd symlinks /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd are made to the scsi device name of your cdrom drive by /etc/init.d/rcS

Line 133=> http://hg.slitaz.org/slitaz-boot-scripts/file/8c7926208f7c/etc/init.d/rcS#l133

These links are not on the livecd so they are not written to disk on a full install.

Tazlito uses symlink /dev/cdrom to mount the cdrom drive to /media/cdrom so it fails.

Line 2314=> http://hg.slitaz.org/tazlito/file/03e65de06780/tazlito#l2314

plumtreed

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

.......almost missed this!

Thanks Mojo, will give it a try next time.

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Re: How do i make my own iso from installed system, is that even possible?

What can I say.......works perfectly....thanks for the detailed explantion which clarified the problem and showed where things were going wrong......appreciate your efforts!