morphix-user

[Morphix-user] problem with isomaker (maybe)

[G1ul10 <g1...@li...>]

Hi all,
I'm trying to morph a morphix CD. I've took two config files
from /usr/share/mmaker/templates

mkdir morphing
cd morphing
cp /usr/share/mmaker/templates/basemod-2.6.13.xml basemod.xml
cp /usr/share/mmaker/templates/lightgui.xml lightgui.xml

then I edited  basemod.xml to change the source of knoppix deb
packages (the one in the file did not seem to work) so that now it reads

  <repositorylist>
   <repository type="debian">ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian</repository>
<!--   <repository type="debian">ftp://127.0.0.1/debian</repository>-->
   <repository type="plain">http://www.morphix.org/debian</repository>
<repository
type="plain">http://debian-knoppix.alioth.debian.org</repository>
</repositorylist>

and finally I used

isomaker -b basemod-2.6.13-my.xml -m lightgui.xml \
-r http://www.morphix.org/debian/udeb -p grub-gfxboot-iso-udeb \
-p morphix-cdrom-misc-udeb -p morphix-grub-menulist-udeb \
-p morphix-iso-grubtheme mylivecd.iso

to obtain the iso. When I tested it with

qemu -cdrom mylivecd.iso 

I've got an error:

...
losetup: /dev/cloop: no such device or address
Can't find MORPHIX filesystem, sorry
...

Can someone help, please? 

Notice two things:

1) qemu is properly configurated; indeed I'm able to run the original
morphix iso images

2) I'm doing everything from inside a chroot in the main module of a
MorphixCombined-LightGUI-0.5-pre4.iso

Best,
	G.

Re: [Morphix-user] problem with isomaker (maybe)

[Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...>]

Hi G.

>   <repositorylist>
>    <repository type=3D"debian">ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian</repository>
> <!--   <repository type=3D"debian">ftp://127.0.0.1/debian</repository>-->
>    <repository type=3D"plain">http://www.morphix.org/debian</repository>
> <repository
> type=3D"plain">http://debian-knoppix.alioth.debian.org</repository>
> </repositorylist>
Not sure if the knoppix the repository contains any deb's. I just had
a look very empty.

>
> isomaker -b basemod-2.6.13-my.xml -m lightgui.xml \
> -r http://www.morphix.org/debian/udeb -p grub-gfxboot-iso-udeb \
> -p morphix-cdrom-misc-udeb -p morphix-grub-menulist-udeb \
> -p morphix-iso-grubtheme mylivecd.iso
Wrong command, try mmaker not isomaker.

> Can someone help, please?
Have a look at Morphing-Morphix.

>
> Notice two things:
>
> 1) qemu is properly configurated; indeed I'm able to run the original
> morphix iso images
>
> 2) I'm doing everything from inside a chroot in the main module of a
> MorphixCombined-LightGUI-0.5-pre4.iso
>
Running mmaker within a chroot is interesting. You make be mixing
methods of morphing a cd.

Have a look at Morphing-Morphix, it contains lots of examples. Boot
the cd, from the form the main toolbar menu, selecting
Morphing-Morphix. You can do lots of example Morphing from the cd.

Hope this helps,
Brendan

Re: [Morphix-user] problem with isomaker (maybe)

[Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...>]

Hi Giulio,

On 2/22/06, G1ul10 <> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:56:50 +0000
> "Brendan M. Sleight" wrote
>
> Hi Brendan,
> thank you very much for your reply. Can you please give me some more
> info?
>
> > Not sure if the knoppix the repository contains any deb's. I just had
> > a look very empty.
>
> Can you suggest where to look? The repo in the mmaker template I used
> was unreachable. No idea where to fetch these debian-kernel deb files.
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/
http://www.morphix.org/debian/
http://www.morphix.org/debian/binaries/

>
> >
> > >
> > > isomaker -b basemod-2.6.13-my.xml -m lightgui.xml \
> > > -r http://www.morphix.org/debian/udeb -p grub-gfxboot-iso-udeb \
> > > -p morphix-cdrom-misc-udeb -p morphix-grub-menulist-udeb \
> > > -p morphix-iso-grubtheme mylivecd.iso
> > Wrong command, try mmaker not isomaker.
>
> Well, to say the truth I've copied this command from
>
> /usr/share/doc/morphix-mmaker/README.isomaker
Sorry - correct command Brendan can't read :)
I was thinking of isomorph not isomaker


> on the LightGUI Morphix iso. What you mean is to use mmaker
> to build separately the base and main modules? Is this safer? If I
> understood the philosophy, this is exaclty what isomaker is assumed to
> do...
... Yes it is you are right Brendan did not read you first email properly,
** blush **

> I've also tried to use the Morphing-Morphix iso. Same result. BTW
> notice that once I chroot in the base module, I apt-get update/upgrade,
> so basically I end up with more or less the same system... apart some
> fancy application that I dont' use.
>
> > Have a look at Morphing-Morphix, it contains lots of examples. Boot
> > the cd, from the form the main toolbar menu, selecting
> > Morphing-Morphix. You can do lots of example Morphing from the cd.
>
> You mean there's a graphic application for Morphing? I missed it! Let
> me try...
>
> Many thaks,
>
>         Giulio.
No problem, hopefully I was more helpful than unhelpful.

Please reply to mailing list, so that other users can see when I get
the commands wrong :)

Brendan

Re: [Morphix-user] problem with isomaker (maybe)

[Alex de L. <al...@de...>]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 22:42 +0000, Brendan M. Sleight wrote:
> Hi Giulio,
<snip conversation about isomaker & knoppix packages>
>=20

You might have more success when using the templates currently in CVS
(/mmaker/templates), or the ones from the autobuilds. The ones in the
morphix-mmaker package are already reasonably old, I'll package the
latest ones when I get the chance.

cheers,

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Re: [Morphix-user] problem with isomaker (maybe)

[G1ul10 <g1...@li...>]

On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:54:59 +0100
Alex de Landgraaf <al...@de...> wrote:
> 
> You might have more success when using the templates currently in CVS
> (/mmaker/templates), or the ones from the autobuilds. The ones in the
> morphix-mmaker package are already reasonably old, I'll package the
> latest ones when I get the chance.
>
 
Hi Alex,
thank yuou very much for you suggestion. Indeed using
basemod-2.6.15.xml and lightgui.xml from the cvs and with the command

isomaker -b basemod-2.6.15.xml -m lightgui.xml -r
http://www.morphix.org/debian/udeb -p grub-gfxboot-iso-udeb -p
morphix-cdrom-misc-udeb -p morphix-grub-menulist-udeb -p
morphix-iso-grubtheme mylivecd.iso

I was able to to make a  working livecd.

However, during the process I've obtained many warnings like this

W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.os-works.com
unstable/main Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/www.os-works.com_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i386_

are they potentially dangerous?


	Giulio.

Re: [Morphix-user] problem with isomaker (maybe)

[Alex de L. <al...@de...>]

Hi Guilio,

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 14:30 +0100, G1ul10 wrote:

> However, during the process I've obtained many warnings like this
>=20
> W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.os-works.com
> unstable/main Packages
> (/var/lib/apt/lists/www.os-works.com_debian_dists_unstable_main_binary-i3=
86_
>=20
> are they potentially dangerous?

Not really. os-works / os-cillation has (or should have) newer
xfce4-packages than Debian unstable. If their repository isn't
available, then the default xfce4 packages from Debian unstable are used
instead.

cheers,
Alex

Re: [Morphix-user] problem with isomaker (maybe)

[Brendan M. S. <me...@ba...>]

Hi Giulio,

On 2/24/06, G1ul10  wrote:
> Hi Brendan,
> I want to shortly report on my expirience with the M-M.
>
> It is definitely a good idea! Sadly, it did not work for me. I chose
> as option to rebuild the base mod. When it started to extract the
> main .mod I've get a lot of cp Input/Output error. Investigation
> revealed the obvious reson: no room on /var/tmp/. Apparently my 250MB
> of memory + 250 MB swap space are not enough to use the M-M (before
> someone reply that I have to expand/upgrade my memory let me clarify
> that I'm using a several years old Pentium III for this kind of game,
> and at those times 250MB of memory were enough for every man).
* - See below

>
> Obvious solution: add more swap. Sure. But this strongly reduce the
> attractiveness of M-M guide (dummies are not supposed to know how to
> add new swaps). If i can dare to give a suggestion... wouldn't be much
> better to use the hard drive partition you are already using to mk the
> final iso also in the intermediate steps, like the extraction of
> main .mod ? It is much more likely for the average user to have 800MB of
> spare space on disk than in memory!
Sounds like a good idea, I should have used the   mmaker option:-
            -t:     use this temp directory instead of making a new one

Thanks for the feedback, something to add to the next version of
morphing-morphix.

Regards,
Brendan

* - Joke
 Question:  How many software engineers does it take to change a light buld=
 ?
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