Remastering Manulix

Manulix, the 100% free installable LiveCD based on Linux kernel, uClibc standard C library, and GNU tools (GNU/uClibc/Linux distribution)

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A. Prepairing an environment for remastering

B. Chrooting and making desired modifications

C. Executing the remastering scripts

A. Prepairing an environment for remastering

1. Boot the Manulix CD (the one which you want to remaster).

2. Mount a writable volume to work within. The volume's file system should be ext2.

# mkdir -p /mnt/hda1
# mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/hda1

Note:: It is strongly recommended that you mount to /mnt/hda1, even if your volume is in a location other than /dev/hda1. Otherwise, you will have to edit the remastering scripts.

3. Create the necessary filesystem layout for remastering scripts. Copy (a) the contents of /.source (it is a mounted squashfs filesystem) which will be used as chroot environment and (b) the contents of /.master which will be used by mkisofs at final stage of LiveCD mastering.

# mkdir -p /mnt/hda1/livecd/source
# cp -a /.source/* /mnt/hda1/livecd/source/
# mkdir -p /mnt/hda1/livecd/master
# cp -a /.master/* /mnt/hda1/livecd/master/

4. Extract the existing initrd.

# mkdir -p /mnt/hda1/livecd/initrd
# cd /mnt/hda1/livecd/initrd
# gunzip -c /cdrom/boot/initrd.img | cpio -idm

5. Copy the required BusyBox binary and symlinks.

# cp -a /busybin /mnt/hda1/livecd/source/

B. Chrooting and making desired modifications

1. In progress.

C. Executing the remastering scripts

1. In progress.