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ezremaster: Wizard that walks you step by step to remaster ISO of tinycore
tclfan:
Brian,
Thanks much for your explanation. I did attempt some testing last night, but for the lack of time I did not have a chance to organize notes of all steps around it. However one issue was constantly preventing me from testing. I did put together a sample destop, such as Xorg, windows manager, using each time different (Openbox, Hackedbox, fluxbox, LXDE, JWM). configured Firefox and installed ezmaster extension. Ezmaster extension was available on the WM menu (Usually) but clicking on it did nothing. No effect and actually the entire desktop was freezing on me so I had to do a hard poweroff. Did you run into this issue? This could be not even an ezmaster issue, but some compatibility with WMs...
I apologize if this was covered in some other thread I overlooked...
ixbrian:
--- Quote from: tclfan on October 28, 2010, 09:57:12 AM ---Brian,
Thanks much for your explanation. I did attempt some testing last night, but for the lack of time I did not have a chance to organize notes of all steps around it. However one issue was constantly preventing me from testing. I did put together a sample destop, such as Xorg, windows manager, using each time different (Openbox, Hackedbox, fluxbox, LXDE, JWM). configured Firefox and installed ezmaster extension. Ezmaster extension was available on the WM menu (Usually) but clicking on it did nothing. No effect and actually the entire desktop was freezing on me so I had to do a hard poweroff. Did you run into this issue? This could be not even an ezmaster issue, but some compatibility with WMs...
I apologize if this was covered in some other thread I overlooked...
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Try installing the ezremaster extension "onboot" instead of ondemand. Open a terminal and type "ezremaster".
Brian
tclfan:
Brian,
Thanks. I will test as soon as I can.
tclfan:
Hi Brian,
I hope you keep ezremaster updated, working with TCL 3.3...
Just to let you know, this work is greatly appreciated. I consider remastering tool one of the most important, official or not...
TerryJC:
Brian,
As you may have realised from some of my naive questions elsewhere regarding ezremaster, I'm new to this kind of thing, although I've been a Linux user for around 10 years. I program for a living, but in the test industry, so learning this stuff has been an interesting voyage for me.
Having said all that and to put my comments into context, I'd like to say thanks for your work on ezremaster. I found it invaluable when I built my first working live disc.
So as an amateur in this area, can I make some suggestions for enhancement? Based on the things that gave me difficulties, I think ezremaster could be improved in a couple of key areas:
* In the extensions selection dialogue. It would be nice to see a more newbie friendly approach here. What I really wanted to do was to build a disk that included many of the extensions installed in my running system. I had installed a number of Apps that were available on boot and a number that were available on demand. What would have been useful would have been a big button that said 'Clone this system' or similar, so that I could easily arrive at a disc that did exactly what my dev station does. After creating this useful starting point, could then have removed all those apps I didn't need very easily.
* In the final dialogue where the blue links are clicked to add further files. At present, files have to be copied from the running system to the ../extract directory using a series of shell commands. This is not a problem and I managed it OK, (with a few embarrassing mistakes), but I suspect that this process would be a bit off-putting to real newbies. I know that TC isn't intended for real newbies, but ezremaster automates so much of the remastering compexity, it seems a shame to leave this bit out. Maybe clicking on the links could launch a file manager instead of a shell?
Anyway, there are my suggestions for what they are worth. Whatever you do, I will continue to use ezremaster and thank you again for your work.
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