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ezremaster is awesome!! have a couple of questions about my lateset remaster??
coreplayer2:
At that time yes the wallpaper was included in the "mydata" backup and it is present in the opt/backgrounds directory yet it is not displayed on boot up on the remastered iso.
ixbrian:
--- Quote from: coreplayer2 on November 04, 2011, 09:40:15 PM ---At that time yes the wallpaper was included in the "mydata" backup and it is present in the opt/backgrounds directory yet it is not displayed on boot up on the remastered iso.
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So after you did the remaster you had the wallpaper in /opt/backgrounds, but did you have a ".setbackground" in your home directory? If .setbackground is in your mydata.tgz backup and you selected your mydata.tgz backup in ezremaster it should be there in the remaster. Are you using a bootcode to set a different user name? Are you using a different window manager?
coreplayer2:
everyday the tangled ball of twine unfolds a little more..
Originally I was not aware of the setbackground file, then after finding it, I found including it in a settings extension was undesirable also, although saving ".setbackground" and a background image in mydata.tgz has completely resolved this 2nd issue thanks. We now boot to a custom background image on every remastered iso
editing (what i believe to be a wbar default file) dot.wbar to my preference and saving that also in the mydata.tgz via .filetool.lst file has resolved issue #3 also
Am still attempting to fix the boot time out issue, which is not going well atm! there appears to be a minimum timeout regardless of how small a wait is specified.
ixbrian:
--- Quote from: coreplayer2 on November 06, 2011, 12:22:23 AM --- everyday the tangled ball of twine unfolds a little more..
Originally I was not aware of the setbackground file, then after finding it, I found including it in a settings extension was undesirable also, although saving ".setbackground" and a background image in mydata.tgz has completely resolved this 2nd issue thanks. We now boot to a custom background image on every remastered iso
editing (what i believe to be a wbar default file) dot.wbar to my preference and saving that also in the mydata.tgz via .filetool.lst file has resolved issue #3 also
Am still attempting to fix the boot time out issue, which is not going well atm! there appears to be a minimum timeout regardless of how small a wait is specified.
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There isn't any minimum isolinux timeout that I know of. What happens when you set it to 0 or to 1? If it isn't working can you verify that the isolinux.cfg file was updated and has the new timeout value after the remaster boots?
coreplayer2:
thanks for your follow up.
You are correct thanks, no limit as long as the number is positive. A timout of 1 works on a VM great but a CD had some reliability questions with that, so went with 10 instead which gives consistantly slow results. :P
I could not detect the difference in changing PROMPT to either 0 or 1, it should only show boot options when Ctrl key is pressed with PROMPT 0 (I think it's Ctrl anyhow), otherwise with PROMPT 1 the menu options should show and timeout after the specified time.. also adding "ONTIMEOUT tinycore" to the boot options appeared to help. Whatever, the menu always appeared and any timeout less than 10 ie 1 appeared unreliable. TIMEOUT 10 works for me, at least you can see the cursor transition to the next line after one second, which is ok when booting a VM but a CD? forget it!! 10 ie one second (I think) is like an eternity when booting a real pc with a cd, which times at 30 to 40 seconds sitting waiting at the isolinux boot menu. I think the issue is a slow reading cd and the quiet boot option which was applied during remaster. It just seams that we have to wait 30-40 seconds for the cd to be read whilst staring at the boot option only to have tinycore boot in 3 seconds or less when ready!! Perhaps a Splash screen will help??
I found this to be the best reliable option
implicit 0
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 10
ONTIMEOUT tinycore
This works, not ideal but works. spent the better part of a day editing the remastered iso then testing in a VM to find a solution.
All my questions are a result of my wrong doing, I know there is a tutorial around here somewhere and I should have been more thorough in searching for it. The remaster script has worked flawlessly every time THANKS
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