Remastering Knoppix

Hi, I've downloaded Knoppix 3.2 (2003-06-06) and think it's great. But
I want to change a couple of things in the ISO before burning it on
CD. Say, make "knoppix lang=en" the default, or add "export LESS=-F"
to /etc/profile. How would I go about it?

P.S.: I'm learning Linux, but am not very experienced.

Many thanks.

In article <va9rfv0mrvtvisgi3ibc5ht614a6bfldts@4ax.com>,
rihad <rihad@mail.ru> wrote:
>Hi, I've downloaded Knoppix 3.2 (2003-06-06) and think it's great. But
>I want to change a couple of things in the ISO before burning it on
>CD. Say, make "knoppix lang=en" the default, or add "export LESS=-F"
>to /etc/profile. How would I go about it?
>
>P.S.: I'm learning Linux, but am not very experienced.

Google is your friend. 2nd hit:

http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.ph...masteringHowto

BAJ

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 19:28:46 +0500 wrote rihad <rihad@mail.ru> in
comp.os.linux.misc with <va9rfv0mrvtvisgi3ibc5ht614a6bfldts@4ax.com>

>Hi, I've downloaded Knoppix 3.2 (2003-06-06) and think it's great. But
>I want to change a couple of things in the ISO before burning it on
>CD. Say, make "knoppix lang=en" the default, or add "export LESS=-F"
>to /etc/profile. How would I go about it?

You can always mount the iso as a loopback device. I once tried to add things
this way to the ISO and it worked, but it is said that you shouldn't do it
that way. Of course this way you can copy it to a normal file system and
change it and then create a new iso with mkisofs.

To mount in loopback use
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=dev/loop0 Your_Image /YourMountpoint.

Of course if you want to change something then ommit the ro of course.

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Byron A Jeff wrote:

> In article <va9rfv0mrvtvisgi3ibc5ht614a6bfldts@4ax.com>,
> rihad <rihad@mail.ru> wrote:
> >Hi, I've downloaded Knoppix 3.2 (2003-06-06) and think it's great. But
> >I want to change a couple of things in the ISO before burning it on
> >CD. Say, make "knoppix lang=en" the default, or add "export LESS=-F"
> >to /etc/profile. How would I go about it?
> >
> >P.S.: I'm learning Linux, but am not very experienced.
>
> Google is your friend. 2nd hit:
>
> http://www.knoppix.net/docs/index.ph...masteringHowto
>
> BAJ

Wow, that site is really stupid (dangerous).

To muck with the contents of knoppix...

1) Get the knoppix iso.
2) mount -o loop knoppix.iso /mnt/knoppix
3) download and install cloop if you don't have it from
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/sources/
make sure to follow the README exactly.
4) cd /mnt/knoppix/KNOPPIX
5) ./KNOPPIX /mnt/knoppix-root
5a) Commentary...
The KNOPPIX file is an executable with a script
prefix that looks like:
#!/bin/sh
insmod cloop.o file=$0 && mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/cloop $1
exit $?
Executing it mounts it with the arg as the mountpoint and cloop as the
device driver.

Now you can do what you will to the knoppix root filesystem mounted in
/mnt/knoppix-root.

Gary.

rihad wrote:

> Hi, I've downloaded Knoppix 3.2 (2003-06-06) and think it's great. But
> I want to change a couple of things in the ISO before burning it on
> CD. Say, make "knoppix lang=en" the default, or add "export LESS=-F"
> to /etc/profile. How would I go about it?

http://www.knoppix.net/, enter "remaster" in the search field

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