Knoppix 6.5 remastering

Some time ago Klaus Knopper http://www.knoppix.org has introduced Knoppix 6.5 at CeBIT in Hanover on March 1st with exlusive DVD issue. Knoppix is the world's greatest Live distro and one of the oldest and most widely-recognized Linux operating systems.

The new Knoppix 6.5 is Live DVD system and may be installed on a USB stick or hard drive.

Knoppix 6.5 includes flash-knoppix for bootable USB sticks and improved support foe NVidia cards.
CeBIT DVD release includes ~9GB software - more than 3000 packages!


Knoppix 6.5 comes with a 64bit kernel in addition to the 32bit.
If you like to try the new kernel you must enter knoppix64 instead of knoppix at the boot: prompt.

For NVIDIA graphics adapter Knoppix 6.5 will use the proprietary driver automatically.
But the cheatcodes xmodule=nouveau and xmodule=vesa are still available for unsupported graphics adapters.

Adobe's Flash plugin support Flash content on web pages.

The HD install procedure requires about 15 GB free disk space and a 1 GB swap partition.
The installation on USB stick using the flash-knoppix also requires at least 200 MB free disk space if you like to use a persistent image.

There are new cheatcodes: nodmr and nofb.


Here we are!

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28 Simple Steps for KNOPPIX 6.5 DVD remasternig.

1. Burn and boot DVD iso-image. For example  Download KNOPPIX 6.5 DVD RU

2. Make source and master folders for future new system:

mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx

mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/source

mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX

mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx

mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/master

mkdir /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX

3. Copy root folder /KNOPPIX :

cp /KNOPPIX /mnt/sda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX

4. Also copy :

cp -ar /mnt-system/boot /mnt/hda1/knx/master/boot

cp /mnt-system/index.html /mnt/hda1/knx/master/

cp /mnt-system/KNOPPIX/modules /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX ( the same for background.jpg knoppix-logo-medium.png …)

5. Setup chroot environment :

mount --bind /dev /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX/dev

mount --bind /proc /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX/proc

mount --bind /sys /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX/sys

and GO:

chroot /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX

6. Activate network:
ifconfig eth0 192.168.20.7 (your IP address)
route add default gw 192.168.20.1 (your default gateway IP address)
Edit resolv.conf :
search mydomain.com
nameserver 192.168.20.10 (your domain server IP)
Check : ping google.com

7. Get current updates list:

apt-get update

dpkg-query –l > packages.txt - list of packages

8. Delete unnecessary packages:

apt-get remove --purge name-of-package-to-remove

9. Add necessary packages:
apt-get install

10. Edit /etc/console-tools/config:

SCREEN_FONT=

SCREEN_FONT_MAP=.sfm

11. X11 keyboard switch:  /etc/default/console-setup:

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="us,ru"
XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys"
XKBOPTIONS="grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"

12. Edit /etc/default/console-setup:

CHARMAP=”UTF-8”

CODESET=”Uni1”

…

XKBMODEL=”pc105”

XKBLAYOUT=”us,ru”

XKBVARIANT=”nodeadkeys”

XKBOPTIONS=”grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll”

KEYTABLE=”ru”

13. Edit /etc/default/keyboard:

KEYTABLE=”ru”

XKBMODEL=”pc105”

XKBLAYOUT=”us,ru”

XKBVARIANT=”nodeadkeys”

XKBOPTIONS=”grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll”

14. Edit /etc/environment:

LANG=”ru_RU.UTF-8”

LANGUAGE=”ru_RU.UTF-8”

LC_MESSAGES=”ru_RU.UTF-8”

LC_ALL=”ru_RU.UTF-8”

15. Edit /etc/locale.alias :

russian ru_RU.UTF-8 

16. Edit /etc/locale.gen - (remove comment for proper locale name) and run:
locale-gen

17. Edit autostart in /etc/rc.local :
SERVICES="console-setup "

18.Edit /etc/profile:

export LANG = ru_RU.UTF-8

export LANGUAGE = ru_RU.UTF-8

export LC_MESSAGES = ru_RU.UTF-8

19. Copy:
cp /home/knippix /etc/skel
cp /home/knoppix /root

20. SUPER!!!! X Window Keyboard switch:
Edit file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf. Add:

Option “XkbRules” ”xorg”

Option “XkbModel” ”pc105”

Option “XkbLayout” ”us,ru”

Option “XkbOptions” ”grp:ctrl_shift_toggle, grp_led:scroll”

21. Edit /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig:
   ru) # Russian version
  COUNTRY="ru"; LANG="ru_RU"; LANGUAGE="ru_RU.UTF-8"; KEYTABLE="ru"; XKEYBOARD="us,ru"; KDEKEYBOARD="us,ru"; CHARSET="UTF-8"; CONSOLEFONT="UniCyr_8x16"; KDEKEYBOARDS="us,ru"; TZ="Europe/Moscow" ;;
....
  *) # Russian version
   COUNTRY="ru"; LANG="ru_RU"; LANGUAGE="ru_RU.UTF-8"; KEYTABLE="ru"; XKEYBOARD="us,ru"; KDEKEYBOARD="us,ru"; CHARSET="UTF-8"; CONSOLEFONT="UniCyr_8x16"; KDEKEYBOARDS="us,ru"; TZ="Europe/Moscow" ;;

22. Clear IP address, cache, resolv.conf, hostname, eth0, your home history

23. For mounting USB sticks and iso in UTF8:
Edit /usr/sbin/rebuildfstab -  add iocharset=utf8

24. Clean:

COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l |grep ^rc |awk '{print $2} ' | xargs dpkg –P

apt-get clean

25. Leave the chroot (just type exit twise) and unmount

umount  /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX/dev

umount  /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX/proc

umount  /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX/sys

26. Create Knoppix compressed image:

mkisofs -R -U -V "KNOPPIX 6.5 xxx" -log-file /mnt/hda1/knx/iso.log -publisher "www.knoppix.net" -hide-rr-moved -cache-inodes -pad /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX | nice -n 5 /usr/bin/create_compressed_fs  -B 65536 -f /mnt/sda1/isotemp - /mnt/hda1/knx/master/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

27. Update the file hashes:

cd /mnt/hda1/knx/master

find -type f -not -name sha1sums -not -name boot.cat -not -name isolinux.bin -exec sha1sum '{}' \; > KNOPPIX/sha1sums

28. CreateLive DVD ISO:

mkisofs -pad -l -r -J -v -V "KNOPPIX" -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 \

-boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat \

-hide-rr-moved -o /mnt/hda1/knx/knoppix.iso /mnt/hda1/knx/master

Thats ALL!
Seems too long, but not so complicate...