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ezremaster is awesome!! have a couple of questions about my lateset remaster??
coreplayer2:
I know this is not the only remastering tool available but I got to hand it to Mr Smith; this script is awesome, THANKS :)
All my applications, scripts and extensions work flawlessly, meanwhile I have some small undesired anomaly's Three actually..
1st item, Since remastering I've acquired an undesirable boot menu which stops progress temporarily until a selection is made or a time out is reached..
I receive the Tinycore Distribution message and "Press <Enter> to begin or F2, F3, or F4 to view boot options" message.
So, I don't think we need these boot option, which is one of many reasons we made the remaster to begin with, I need to reduce this time out period, any ideas please? Or am I forced to make a remaster of the tinycore iso to use as the base for the final remaster??
2nd item, After the remaster, the wallpaper has not been retained. the wallpaper still exists but is not select for use (perhaps home/tc/.setbackground???) well this apears to have got the job done, but as always there is probably a better way??
3rd item, and even the wbar items are back to normal after a remaster. (perhaps make a backup of "xwbar.lst" to a settings extension??)
I am thinking there must be a config file for each of these last two items which needs backing up into mydata.tgz file or a settings extension, but I'm scratching my head here looking for best solution, anyone with a more apropriate fix is appreciated.
:-\
Rich:
Hi coreplayer2
On the first item, you need to alter the config file for the bootloader you are using. You are looking
for a line that says something like timeout 30 or timeout 300. Those numbers would both
represent 30 seconds, adjust it to suit your needs.
ixbrian:
1st item (isolunix prompt at boot) - When you get to the last page of ezremaster click the link for "ISO Directory" (defaults to /tmp/ezremaster/image). This will open a terminal. Then type "sudo vi boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg" Change the "timeout 600" line to whatever you would like the timeout to be and the save the file and exit vi (:wq!). The isolinux timeout is the number of 1/10 seconds to wait (i.e. timeout 600 = 1 minute)
2nd item - By default the home directory and /opt/backgrounds should be included in the mydata.tgz backup, and you should be able to select your mydata.tgz file on the second page of ezremaster which should have your remaster include your custom wallpaper. Is this not working for you?
3rd item - On the last page of exremaster click the link for "ISO Directory" (defaults to /tmp/ezremaster/image). Then type "sudo cp /mnt/sda1/tce/xwbar.lst cde/xwbar.lst" (You will need to change the /mnt/sda1/tce/xwbar.lst to whatever the correct path is on your system) I've never tried including a xwbar.lst in a remaster like this, but I believe it will work (let us know if you try it)
Let me know if you have any other problems or questions.
Brian
coreplayer2:
Thanks for the reply.
--- Quote ---2nd item - By default the home directory and /opt/backgrounds should be included in the mydata.tgz backup, and you should be able to select your mydata.tgz file on the second page of ezremaster which should have your remaster include your custom wallpaper. Is this not working for you?
--- End quote ---
Ok yes and no is the best I can answer. After the remaster, the wallpaper has been saved in it's original location "/opt/backgrounds", however the custom wallpaper is not selected and boots up to the default blue background and logo.
Instead I created an extension for local setting like this one "home/tc/.setbackground" which enables the custom wallpaper to be loaded at boot.
This is a workable solution, I just don't know if it's the most appropriate one.
ixbrian:
--- Quote from: coreplayer2 on November 04, 2011, 09:03:36 PM ---Thanks for the reply.
--- Quote ---2nd item - By default the home directory and /opt/backgrounds should be included in the mydata.tgz backup, and you should be able to select your mydata.tgz file on the second page of ezremaster which should have your remaster include your custom wallpaper. Is this not working for you?
--- End quote ---
Ok yes and no is the best I can answer. After the remaster, the wallpaper has been saved in it's original location "/opt/backgrounds", however the custom wallpaper is not selected and boots up to the default blue background and logo.
Instead I created an extension for local setting like this one "home/tc/.setbackground" which enables the custom wallpaper to be loaded at boot.
This is a workable solution, I just don't know if it's the most appropriate one.
--- End quote ---
I just tried it out and all I had to do was select my "mydata.tgz" file on the second page of ezremaster and my background was restored when the remaster booted. Can you confirm if your mydata.tgz file includes your wallpaper image under /opt/backgounds and also contains your /home/tc/.setbackground file? Are you using a different window manager or something?
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