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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: b1ackmai1er on July 21, 2010, 08:13:21 AM

Title: Saving extensions on CDROM (solved)
Post by: b1ackmai1er on July 21, 2010, 08:13:21 AM

Hi,

I am a bit confused how to save extensions on the boot CDROM so they can be loaded at a later date or using the boot options . I have scanned the wiki and the forum but have not seem a definite answer.

I tried using WinISO to add a /opt/tce directory with my extensions contained within to the ISO route directory (not the /boot directory) but I get a image checksum error from ISOLINUX.

Should this work or have I genuinely got a corrupted isolinux.bin ?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Saving extensions on CDROM
Post by: curaga on July 21, 2010, 08:33:29 AM

Any of the ISO editors aren't guaranteed to work with bootable images. See the remaster page on the wiki for the commands to extract & regenerate the iso (needs a linux system).

For loading automatically at boot, /tce/optional. For any time later, or at boot with a bootcode, any dir is fine.

Title: Re: Saving extensions on CDROM
Post by: b1ackmai1er on July 21, 2010, 08:42:59 AM

Thanks.

Is there a way to create the original ISO file from the cdrom that Tiny Core booted from rather than downloading again or mounting another drive with the iso on?

i.e. can I use isoimage.tcz to extract the image off the cd for the remaster process?

Thanks

Title: Re: Saving extensions on CDROM
Post by: curaga on July 21, 2010, 08:49:39 AM

Yes, just use dd:

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=image.iso


There's a wiki page on adding extensions to an ISO, I forgot about that earlier ;)

Title: Re: Saving extensions on CDROM
Post by: b1ackmai1er on July 21, 2010, 10:16:08 AM

Thanks for your help, this is starting to make sense now.

The integrating extensions wiki is what I needed after all, except as you say, I  install the extensions to a different folder so they are not loaded automatically on boot.

Have built my first remastered iso but made the mistake of  installing brassero to burn it --- I think brassero must have about 200 repository dependencies!!!

Still dowloading ... hope I don't run out of memory.

Thanks Again.

Title: Re: Saving extensions on CDROM
Post by: curaga on July 22, 2010, 12:22:05 PM

I just use cdrtools, no deps :)

sudo cdrecord speed=8 /path/to/iso