Hi all,

I've got the slack 10 cds at home and i'm going to install it on my laptop. Now I am looking at installing a trimmed down version of the os. I modified the tagfiles of the packages that i want. My question is... can I simply copy the cds i have to my hard drive... then replace it's tagfiles and recreate new cds????

Just not sure if I can simply copy the content of the cds to my hard drive and then recreate new ones from the files. My guess is yes, but I don't want to simply create a couple coasters if it isn't possible.

Thanks,
drisay.

yeah, you basically just copy the CD/ISO contents to a directory on your hard drive and make your changes in that directory... then when you're done you create an ISO image from there... it's really easy to make a custom slackware install cd with nothing but the software you really want on it...

This seems like the sort of thing that a lot of people would want to do, so maybe Patrick should put some instructions for doing it right in the Slackware discs.

Oh, wait a minute! He did.

Look in the isolinux directory.I wonder why they call those files 'README.TXT' ;-)

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Cerbere, was the sarcasm and the smart-ass tone really necessary??

drisay, if you have any questions just let me know, i'll gladly do what i can to help you out...

I LOVE CUSTOM SLACK CDs...

=)

http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub...10.0/isolinux/

hmmmmmm... nope... don't see a readme there... guess they missed it on the mirror sites. thanks for the help though.

I actually found how to do it on another site (although I'm sure there are instructions somewhere on the slackware site... i didn't find them though). Thanks very much for the help though. I found how to modify the tagfiles, and as well as adding custom software and removing packages and stuff.

Thanks again,
drisay.

drisay: The excerpt I quoted is from the directory structure of the Slack 10.0 discs, so you should already have that REAMDE.TXT. Which is why I answered in such a sarcastic and smart-ass tone. If I offended you, then I apologize. I assure you that I intended only a good-natured poke in the ribs, not a sock in the eye. I confess that it upsets me when people post a question without at least trying to find an answer for themselves. I'm glad to see that you did search, and in fact were able to find another source for a solution. Perhaps you could post the url here as it may help others.

win32sux: My tone may not have been necessary, but at the time, I felt it was appropriate. However, my entire post wouldn't have been necessary if you hadn't suggested such an incomplete solution. Since drisay asked if he could 'copy the content of the cds to my hard drive and then recreate new ones from the files', simply telling him to 'make your changes' and 'create an ISO image from there' leaves out the all the nuts and bolts of making his install disc bootable, which leaves the very real possibility that his new discs would just contain packages and tagfiles. Basically, you're telling him to go ahead and make some coasters.

So perhaps you should refrain from throwing stones. If not simply because, regardless of the tone, my post actually offerred a solution; then perhaps because it's against the rules.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Thanks for the post. Let's just call everything all good... no harm no foul. I guess I never checked the actual cds... I was checking the mirror sites, which in my defence I thought was the exact same thing as what was on my cds that were from ISOs and I couldn't find any instructions. I had also searched on google and had never found anything before posting the original message. I later found it when I wasn't getting any responses.

Here's the link I found in the archives: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...003/01/3/40749

I hope we can all be friends again

smart-ass tonality is NEVER appropriate...

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However, my entire post wouldn't have been necessary if you hadn't suggested such an incomplete solution.

i wasn't suggesting a "solution", i was making a comment... nobody forced you to post in that manner, you made the decision to be a sarcastic smart-ass - PERIOD... drisay would have asked for more info if he needed it, then i or someone else would have provided the details (mkisofs, etc.) with pleasure...

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simply telling him to 'make your changes' and 'create an ISO image from there' leaves out the all the nuts and bolts of making his install disc bootable

notice how i used the word BASICALLY in that post... i won't go into the nuts and bolts of what the word "basically" implies, but i will say this much: my first post on this thread was only meant to start further discussion if necessary... a lot of time had passed since the thread was started (with zero replies), and i assumed drisay might have already figured this out on his own, which is exactly what happened...

I have to agree with that.

I also agree with that statement. Any solution to me is better than no solution at all.

But now I say to both of you, stop it now!