Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Ted Dog]

Using the remasterCD script here is a DVD-only v1.05 multi-session iso to burn using normal puppy. Change into the download directory and type this.
change /dev/hdb to your burner, found in CD/DVD wizard.

[Flash]

Ted, I really want to try it out, but all I get are pictures of cows and goats.

[Ted Dog]

Ok changed the name to the one listed, please try again

[Ted Dog]

from the download directory (or /mnt/home ) containing usr_devx.sfs
type this command to add to existing burned DVD disk

[Flash]

Hey Ted, thanks. I downloaded it and it works beyond my expectations. For convenience I burned it in Windows with a program called Record Now, because that program has always worked for me. I burned a mini (8 cm) DVD+RW, booted it with option 5, configured it, did some things, shut down, then rebooted and the stuff I had done was still there. Then I sent a few emails and shut down. When I rebooted all the emails I had sent were in the sent folder.

I'm now in my third boot of this DVD and it's saved everything from the first two sessions except your iso, which I had transferred from Windows' NTFS partition to the "My Applications" folder in Puppy. I don't see why the iso wasn't saved. The folder I put the iso in was saved but the iso wasn't.

I burned some folders from Windows' NTFS onto the multisession DVD using TkDVD (checking the "Add Session to Disk -M" option in TkDVD's "Advanced" window), and the folders show up when I mount the DVD. I haven't rebooted it yet to see what happens.

Watch this space for more exciting developments.

Thanks again Ted, and Barry.

[Ted Dog]

this could cause some problems. Since you are on a DVD+RW what the hay it is easy to reuse. You do not even need to erase it (shortens the rewrite count a lot)

[Ted Dog]

uncheck all but the -M and use -R (not -r)
resulting like this
growisofs -M /dev/dvd -J -R -graft.....

[Flash]

Ted, what does the code, that I'm supposed to add to rc.local, do? To put that another way, why do I need it?

- Thanks

[Ted Dog]

-Short answer Not if you can wait.
using your feed back the corrected tlDVD, burnISO2CD, added those changes in rc.local into sysinit-cd where it logically belong fixes are coming into version two of DeVilDog.iso I was trying to fix that dang cdrecord bug for non-DVD users and I am stuck
-now for those who can't wait if the above code is added and *.sfs files are in the same directory as usr_cram.fs, then like magic make,cc and the rest of the developer tools work. So you can compile smallish programs in RAM or in linux, vfat, flashdrive straight off the DVD.

[Flash]

Thanks, I guess I can wait. I have plenty to occupy me till then.

[BarryK]

Ted Dog,
I'm testing version 1.
It's nice not to have those error messages!

Okay, a bug...
Nothing can be deleted.
Your rc.reboot-cd does not save 00files.backup and 00files.deleted to the DVD so they aren't there on next boot.
The problem is, I deleted a file, and it is back on the next boot.
Which means that the size of files in /root is going to keep growing and
growing ...very bad since it is only in a ramdisk.

I will also have a look at the script this afternoon.

[BarryK]

Ted Dog, building on your invaluable experience with growisofs, I have
updated rc.reboot-cd and rc.sysinit-cd, now all working, file deletion also.

Ted Dog, you examined this problem of sessions with growisofs.
Using cdrecord -toc, it shows two tracks, the original live-cd, and when
folders are saved at end of each session they just become track 2.

In other words, track 2 just keeps growing until dvd is full.

It seems, growisofs -Z creates the live-cd first track.
However the subsequent saving of each session with growisofs -M goes
into track 2.

The growisofs docs don't say this?
They do say the the commandline options in both cases, that is when
burning the first time with -Z and subsequent times with -M, that all
other options must be exactly the same.
...which they aren't.
The first time, we a building a bootable dvd, so have extra parameters.

Do you have any thoughts on this?
I would, if possible, like to get it down to all be on one track.
With current situation, there are still some seek errors at shutdown,
due to the 2 tracks.

[Ted_Dog]

I removed active use of cdrecord (I suspect some how it is bad without scsi or without K2.6 series) with in rc.reboot-cd script. Also note Knoppix states that unionfs was to buggy in their early use but it seems to work ok here.
The cdrecord commands found are hold overs (lazy on my part)

[BarryK]

There are two tracks though.

The "disktype" program confirms it.

I hunted around on the Internet, found a vague reference that confirms this.
It suggested the only way to get just one track is with a DVD-RW (I'm using
DVD-Rs) and to put it into "overwrite format" by doing this:

# dvd+rw-format /dev/hdc

then when you do growisofs, firstly with -Z then save sessions with -M,
it is all in one track. ...or so the info implied.

DVD-Rs and normal DVD-RWs are in "sequential format".

[Ted Dog]

I enjoyed only having one reusable DVD to do development. It has been used from version 1.02 on (with earlier growiso tests) I bought a newer DVD (dual layer) for my main linux box, and had trouble reading the DVD-R mini second track burned on winXP box at my folks house. It sound like the same issue you raised. I'll try burning a new mini after a format to see if that was it, I was ready to return this new DVD drive.