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Old 10-18-2004, 02:13 PM   #1
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Make custom feather cd


I want to customize my feather cd. I want to add firefox, yahoo messenger and amsn. And I want to uninstall abs, zile, naim, axyftp and sylpheed (for starters).

I have 256Mb Ram... So I tried a clever trick of making a 700Mb swap file and make feather use it... It didn't work as good as I'd hoped... because the ramdrive remained constant (of about 200Mb) and the swapfile was partially used (20%)....

I downloaded and installed firefox, but when I was downloading the apt-get structure, it ran out of space on the ramdrive

So, I had to reboot, and chose a hard disk install of feather...
Now, It is installed, and works great. I want to know if I can create a custom image with the script on the cd starting from the harddrive distribution...

And if I can do that, after I install the desired programs, how do I uninstall the apt-get structure? (I want everything to fit a 70Mb cd...)

Also, how do I uninstall programs I don't need? Do I have to delete their files manually?

Thanks for helping...
 
Old 10-18-2004, 04:11 PM   #2
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Unfortunately, it's not possible to create a Feather CD image from a HD install. See the Feather remastering guide for details.
You uninstall programs using apt-get as well (use apt-get remove xyz), and you remove the apt-get structure with the rm-dpkg script in /usr/local/bin.
 
Old 10-19-2004, 10:32 AM   #3
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Thanks. I stumbled (because of you) on the main forum. I found the remastering howto and I will try it.

Thank you for telling me how to use apt-get.

Will keep you posted on the outcome!
 
Old 10-21-2004, 07:58 PM   #4
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Please let everyone know how your remastering goes. I run Damn Small Linux off of a 512 meg PQI stick. God I love how tiny that thing is (and have it partitioned into two dirves). I do want to remaster either it or Feather and have a personalized system.
 
Old 10-22-2004, 03:00 PM   #5
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No problem. I'll keep you posted, although it may take a while...

For starters, I didn't try (actually I did, but I gave it up) the remastering script from the cd...

I followed the how-to on the main forum:
http://featherlinux.berlios.de/phpBB...opic.php?t=585

Right now I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall some of the default programs. And squeeze Firefox with the rest in 70Mb...

If I do that, I'll try to add xcdroast, and maybe gphoto2. Oh, I added ymessenger (and works fairly well). Forget about gaim... With dependencies, it grows to over 30Mb... And amsn is about 15Mb... So, only yahoo is left.
Firefox takes up maybe 10Mb (but I don't know for sure)...

I chose feather over dsl because feather has a working mplayer in it... And I like it better...
 
  


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