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Title: Remaster
Post by: NGIB on May 22, 2014, 01:23:23 PM

Anyone remastered and successfully reinstalled from a remaster yet?  This is a feature I use a lot as I have a lot of computers in the extended family with similar hardware.  It worked great in 7.5 as it was Buntu based, haven't tried it yet in Watt 8 but I'm hopeful...

Title: Re: Remaster
Post by: NGIB on May 22, 2014, 11:02:04 PM

Am I the only person that uses this capability?  It made Watt 7.5 unique as only a very few distros have it...

Title: Re: Remaster
Post by: ourasi on May 26, 2014, 03:57:30 AM

Remastersys for Debian works with Wattos 8.
I installed Wattos 8  in (Windows) VirtualBox and remastered it, installed again from iso-file and remastered again.

For some reason Fragadelics debian installer adds huge (over 2 GB) folder /lib/live/mount. It must be deleted before make another remaster.

Title: Re: Remaster
Post by: NGIB on May 27, 2014, 10:00:02 AM

I was wondering why the installed size nearly doubled - now I know...

Title: Re: Remaster
Post by: NGIB on May 28, 2014, 12:37:39 AM

I added the /lib/live/mount to be skipped inside the remaster installer and it no longer is a problem.  The process is much faster now since over 2GB is not being written just to be deleted later...

Title: Re: Remaster
Post by: ourasi on June 30, 2014, 04:27:59 PM

If you are using VirtualBox with Guest Additions, you must change uids for user vboxadd and group vboxf.

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sudo usermod -u 998 vboxadd
sudo groupmod -g 998 vboxsf

If you dont do this, you can only login as guest in dist-mode ramastersys-iso.
Same changes are needed with new Peppermint 5 LXDE version.

EDIT: There was Fragadelics message about VirtualBox: IMPORTANT NOTE for Ubuntu if you have Virtual Box Guest Additions installed (http://www.remastersys.com/forums/index.php?topic=2414.0).
It was missing change of group uid, which was needed also (for me).