Re: Customizing Knoppix

From: 7 (website_has_email_at_www.ecu.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:11:39 GMT

Jan Kandziora wrote:

> Luc The Perverse schrieb:
>>
>> For someone who has never done anything like this before, what would you
>> say would be the level of difficulty and time investment?
>>
> Get a computer magazine that has such a CD as an add-on. It would cost
> about 3 Euro and 15 minutes of time to walk to your favorite newspaper
> shop.
>
> If you like the "long way home", google for "Knoppix remaster" and there
> you go. It takes about 30 minutes of work and 12 hours of zipping the
> image for me - for you it would be much longer and more frustrating, I
> guess.

Depends on PC.
Takes about 30 minutes to zip for me on 400MHz PC with 256Mb RAM.
Obviously faster PCs can reduce that significantly with larger file sizes.
I need to zip only once to test after lots of work
as I can boot off the hard disk the version I'm working on.
Also, after zipping,
I don't burn to CD, instead set it up as HD boot for
compressed images which is all covered in the Knoppix documentation.
Using grub to boot, I can boot up multiple versions of the derivative in
seconds from hard disk by adding another entry to the menu.lst file.

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