Remastering: PuppyLinux

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This is an old revision of remastering made by darkcity on 2012-05-22 10:37:01.

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How to Remaster Puppy

Remaster Puppy semi-automatically (with scripts)

The following pages show how to semi-automatically remaster puppy:-

Remastering a frugal install

Remasterpup (the standard remaster tool)

remasterpup3: new version of Puppy live-CD remaster script

How to remaster Puppy manually

copy the existing file system to a working directory, e.g.:

mkdir /mnt/home/puppyfilesystem

cp -a  /initrd/pup_ro2/* /mnt/home/puppyfilesystem

modify the contents of the working directory to one's requirements by inspecting the contents of the pup_save file, either /initrd/pup_rw for pupmode 12 or /initrd/pup_ro1 for pupmode 13; and then copy from there the directories /root, /usr and /var.

create the SFS file of the modified file system, e.g.:

mkdir /mnt/home/puppylivediscbuild

cd /mnt/home

mksquashfs puppyfilesystem puppylivediscbuild/puppy-remastered.sfs -noappend

(optional) copy any necessary files to /mnt/home/puppylivediscbuild from the original optical disc and create the ISO file:

cd /mnt/home

mkisofs -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -D -l -R -v -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -o "puppy_remaster.iso" puppylivediscbuild

(optional) livedvd write (burn) the ISO file to optical disc

Remastering a Full Installation?

Unlike a frugal install, there is no need to remaster a full install to change what is there, it is changed, good or ~bad. There is no layering system used, so there is no initrd directory in the root of a full install. The remastering is only needed for convenience, if you plan on transfering the full install to another machine with a live CD.

more info

Remastering Fluppy 2

Fluppy has 2 remaster apps. One for cd remaster and one (based on dougals script) for full installs.

more info

Advantages of Remastering as an alternative to Savefile

Instead of savefiles I do a manual remaster with my settings and whatever DEV tools I need and always run in pfix=ram mode. If I want to save something permanently, I simply mount a partition, save whatever I need and unmount it when I am done. This keeps too much garbage from building up (not just cookies and temp files but also other random stray files from whatever software I have tested and abandoned) Puppy is so simple to remaster and takes so little space, I see no reason not to have each version/puplet in its own directory (even duplicates for multiple users)