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Shocker

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Registered: 2012-06-28

Posts: 3

Creating New ISO

Slitaz 4.0 lite installed to hard drive to customize and want to gen iso of installed system.

I want to creat an ISO of the system as it is installed on my hard drive with downloaded drivers, new software, cpu utilities setup, network setup etc. etc.

I tried the repack cmd it errors at "can't find" this or that.

I have worked with different flavors of Puppy for five or six years now and can do abouit anything with those distros.

Slitaz facinates me because of the very small size.

Thanks for your help.

Shocker

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Creating New ISO

Open terminal login root.

Either insert a slitaz-4.0 live cd in optical drive or loop mount slitaz-4.0 iso to /media/cdrom

Type this command in terminal:

tazlito writeiso lzma

Hit enter

Hit enter or No when asked if you want to remove soundcard and screen configs unless you plan to run the iso on other hardware.

Default destination for generated iso is /home/slitaz/4.0

Trixar_za

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 1,506

Re: Creating New ISO

Also: http://pizza.slitaz.me/

Shocker

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Registered: 2012-06-28

Posts: 3

Re: Creating New ISO

Oh wow! I never expected a response so fast! I'll try this evening to generate a new iso.

This is exciting to me. I can customize Ubuntu, Slackware and other Puppy linux distros to my hearts desire, but never got a distro with everything I needed to less than about 98 mb! Their live CDs an usb flash drives take awhile to load to RAM and boot.

I'm facinated with the rootfs package and excited about learning how to manipuate things. Really impressed with the size and boot speed.

I have already poked around Slitaz and made some changes like auto booting to root. Sorry guys, I know all the warnings and pitfalls, but I'm a root kind of guy. I have been at root for the last five years with puplinux and never messed up anything, it is a live cd most of the time anyway. One of the apps complained with a nag screen about being at root, but it ran fine.

I am an amateur radio operator and want light weight distro that loads quickly.

Thanks to everyone who contributes to the fine distro. Thanks again to mojo and Trixar-za for t the quick response. Looking forward.

Shocker

arandr

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Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 6

Re: Creating New ISO

Hello, following mojo's instructions i got the rootfs.gz what is the next step to create the iso?

Thanks!

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: Creating New ISO

@arandr

No errors reported by tazlito?

Tazlito may have crashed because it ran out of free memory before it built the iso.

arandr

Member

Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 6

Re: Creating New ISO

@mojo

Solved, i forgotten to loop mount the iso!

To loop mount the iso image:

mount -o loop /root/slitaz-4.0.iso /media/cdrom/ (because i placed the iso in root folder)

and then: tazlito writeiso lzma

Now i have the new iso created with all my settings, programs, drivers and firmware stored in the new live usb key and i keep it for backup reason or to use in other pc.

Thank you very much mojo it works!

Shocker

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Registered: 2012-06-28

Posts: 3

Re: Creating New ISO

This is great! I did the same thing though. I had the original CD in the drive, but didn't mount it. Solved that and it made a perfect ISO. I loaded it and it booted right into root like the puppy distros without a password prompt. This is great for live CD maybe not so for desktop HD configuration.

The hirez wallpaper popped right up with the MESA ATI drivers, the cpu throttle worked, but the networkwork had to be started in panel. ETC is set true or yes to start wifi, but it hasn't yet. I'll have to figure that one out.

Next want to cook up a package fo FLDIGI ham radio app. This should be enlightening. Hey this is fresh stuff for me.

Thanks again mojo for the desktop iso capture info.

Shocker

arandr

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Registered: 2012-06-25

Posts: 6

Re: Creating New ISO

@Shocker

Try this to autoconnect to your wifi this work for me:

Edit as root the file /etc/network.conf (I suggest you to edit this file when you already connected to your network from the panel and you are online and not before)

# Wifi connection.

# Enable/disable wireless connection at boot time.

WIFI="yes" <------Here "yes" to activate it at boot time

# Wifi interface (iwconfig) and ESSID.

WIFI_INTERFACE="YourInterface" <------Here the interface "wlan0" or "wlan1" etc..

WIFI_ESSID="YourWifiName" <------Here the name of your wifi connection

WIFI_KEY="YourWifiPassword" <------Here the password of your wifi connection

Save the file and exit leafpad and only now you can make the new iso to autoconnect to your network, about the hdd configuration is the same as the live one and it has lightspeed with or without password prompt as you prefer