Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:30:59AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > > what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to > > > make the whole thing a bit smaller? >

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +, ][ wrote: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to > > make the whole thing a bit smaller? > > >From my personal archive: > > A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to

2007-02-09 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Good point. Turns out grml already comes with localepurge - but being that the modified CD would be just for me, I think I can tighten up the locale.nopurge file a bit more. Thanks, --j On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:02:20AM +0100, anticapitalista wrote: > > You could remove some of the locales, m

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-08 Thread ][
On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > I would like to remaster a Debian based live CD (grml - www.grml.org, > in this case) by copying the system from the squashfs image, chrooting > to it, making the necessary modifications and squashing the resulting > system back up. > I

Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to

2007-02-08 Thread anticapitalista
You could remove some of the locales, man pages and use debophan to get rid of old libs. anticapitalista "Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out

2007-02-08 Thread Juergen Fiedler
Hi, I would like to remaster a Debian based live CD (grml - www.grml.org, in this case) by copying the system from the squashfs image, chrooting to it, making the necessary modifications and squashing the resulting system back up. It works nicely enough, BUT: All manners of cache files, .deb file