Remastering Mandrake 10

disturbed · 08-18-2004, 01:13 PM

Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone out there could point me in the direction of a "how-to" on remastering mandrake? one the would work for mandrake 10? Basically I want to squash the distro into 1 cd for my own use. (taking out unnecessary packages (unnecessary to me that is)

disturbed · 08-19-2004, 05:58 AM

I remember some how-to's being around a while ago after i did a google search but i cant seem to find them again. Something like replacing/removing packages then updating an xml file. Anyone?

rrsc16954 · 08-19-2004, 04:10 PM

Have you looked at the post about creating a live Mandrake cd?

That's Mandrake on one cd.

disturbed · 08-19-2004, 08:24 PM

ill check it out

thanks for the pointer. Im kinda no tafter a live distro though but maybe it could be modifyed for my needs

doug_s · 08-19-2004, 09:37 PM

Mandrake supplies a utility called mkcd for this purpose. Here's a link .

I'd do

urpmi mkcd

to get the dependencies instead of using the one on the cd.

Here's an example, this is how I create a Mandrake 10.0 dvd after mirroring the cooker tree.

mirrordir -v --no-mtimes --follow-symlinks --exclude-glob RPMS3 ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributio...l/cooker/i586/ /mnt/windows/cooker/

mkcd --discsize 4200m -t /mnt/windows -a -c 1 /mnt/windows/cooker

disturbed · 08-20-2004, 01:13 AM

Thanks doug_s Thats what i was after

mjjzf · 08-20-2004, 01:28 AM

Well, you could also download PCLinuxOS, which is Mandrake-based, or SAM, which is also Mandy-based, but a bit smaller. Check them out - they certainly may save you a lot of work!