ezremaster does neither mount ISO nor USB-Stick

[gibelium]

Hi Tiny Core specialists,

I am new to Tiny Core, but have managed to set up a system and configure it for my needs in the last week. First of all, thank you very much for your wonderful work. I think Tiny Core is totally great... :-)

I'm currently facing a strange problem, or rather there are basically two. I want to create an ISO of my system with ezremaster. I have tried to reboot my system with the USB stick I used to install the system, and from there to create an ISO of the installed system with ezremaster. I don't know if this is the right way, but the problem is that the system no longer boots properly from the USB stick. All variants with graphical user interfaces report strange ‘failed to execute “lib/udev/libinput-device-group” [...] format error’ errors. Later, the display in the console consists only of cryptic characters. I suspect that the code page display got screwed up.

My question is why this happens. It can only be because the boot process is reading and using something from the installed system, causing it to get confused. Why does this happen and can I avoid it so that the system boots just as cleanly from the USB stick as it did during the installation with an empty hard drive?

I then installed ezremaster on my system and tried to create the ISO there. The tool opens and I can enter all the details, but when I start the "Remaster step #1" process I always get the error ‘Unable to find CD or mount ISO’.

I tried to use the USB stick I used to install the system and I downloaded both the CorePlus.iso and the TinyCore_current.iso from the website again, copied them to the /tmp/ folder and tried to use them in ezremaster. In all cases the mentioned error occurs.

What am I doing wrong? Is the ezremaster app missing dependencies that I need to install first?

Thanks for help and best regards,
Sebastian

[gibelium]

To answer my question regarding the error ‘Unable to find CD or mount ISO’ by myself:

In the remaster.sh script, you can see that it only allows a CD or ISO that contains /boot/corepure64.gz or /mnt/boot/corepure64.gz. If you provide a CD, USB stick or image containing this file, everything works as expected.

My criticism:
1. on the download page it is not clear which version you are downloading. The advertised downloads at the top are all x86 versions, which you only see if you look twice, and I suspect that any newbie will download one of the top three images. Also, you have to dive into the ‘Other Ports’ section to find the right download. This could be optimised by providing clear sections for the different versions.
2) EZ Remaster does not provide any information about the fact that it only allows ‘Pure 64’ ISOs.


This leaves my other question, why I can no longer boot properly from the USB stick with which I installed the system.