Speakup-enabling recovery or administrative distributions

Techswing33 techswing33 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 10:04:56 EST 2013


Hi,

Thanks, that question was more for the DBAN distro.

Thanks.
Dave.


On 12/2/13, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
> Since most/all livecd distros use squashfs or some such, simply
> mounting an iso via loopback and copying what's on it to rw media
> won't work. I can't speak for the other live distro you mentioned, but
> the way you propose doing it certainly won't work with
> systemrescuecd. Your question indicates you didn't read through the
> link I posted to the systemrescuecd manual. If you want to customize
> systemrescuecd, I really suggest you read that chapter in the
> manual. Customization is certainly possible, but it isn't a straight
> forward walk in the park.
>
> Greg
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:51:43PM -0500, Techswing33 wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions. I've got a lot more
>> information than I did.
>>
>> What I'm thinking is getting each original distro via iso, mounting it
>> via loopback, then copying it out to read/write media. I then can make
>> whatever startup changes needed, and if needed chroot in to it and
>> install any needed packages/compile any needed kernels.
>>
>> Is this correct so far? If it is, how then do I remaster this it would
>> be a directory on host system in to an iso?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Dave.
>
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