[Splashy-devel] Re: dapper livecd w/splashy

[Vincenzo Ampolo]

On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 17:47 -1000, Johnathan Davis wrote:
> Vincenzo,
Johnathan :D
> 
> Thank you for taking time to reply to my message. I have been trying to 
> understand the inner workings of casper, and how it differs from grub. I 
> personally think the Ubuntu folks don't want this to be modified simply 
> because there is no information avail at the forums, or anywhere on the 
> Internet. Everytime a noob asks how to remaster Ubuntu, they are pointed 
> to a dead link or told to use another distro altogether. Are we creating 
> another M$? I believe so..
No, even if it appairs near the M$ policies, ubuntu is far away from
them.
> 
> Somehow after a year of programming, I completed my own kubuntu-based 
> distro, but badly need splashy to work with isolinux. The other distros 
> like Mepis, Gentoo, and Debian Live make it sound possible.
Yep, in these livecds you can install and remove packages via apt-get
and then create your own distribution
> 
> I am using customize_initrd script, from uck1.1 to make changes to 
> casper's initrd. Since there is little difference between the installed 
> initrd.img.xxx file and casper's initrd.gz image, I thought swapping the 
> contents would allow me to boot normally. But nothing seems to work for 
> me. The only way to boot is to leave usplash in initrd.gz, which 
> overrides splashy.
UCK 1 is a good script, but it has not too much features. You can solve
this situation:
I have the alternate dapper cd and i tried to mount it as loopback:
 sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-6.06-alternate-amd64.iso test
Then i can navigate underthe ./test directory into the iso image. At
this time, if you see a normal Gnu/linux
structure: / /home /dev /var /proc etc. contact me that i'll give you a
sh script that links your iso image to the system to have a root shell
and internet access.
Then you can do:
apt-get --purge remove usplash
apt-get install splashy
and then, modifing casper/isolinux to pass vga=791 to the kernel it
should work.

nb: i never did it, so it can be wrong. if i'm not wrong usplash uses
initramfs and not initrd, please verify it.
> 
> I know you are busy, and I appreciate your help. I wish there was a easy 
> way to get splashy to boot from the Dapper Live DVD. I would be happy to 
> do whatever it takes to finalize this DVD. Hope to talk to you soon.
I'm waiting your answer...
Now a ubuntu live cd/dvd is going to wake up my interests. It's a good
way to know splashy and find new users.
> Heres that cool script....
> UCK 1.1 kit
> http://lichota.net/~krzysiek/projects/ubuntu-livecd-customization/
> 
> Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:36 -1000, Johnathan Davis wrote:
> >   
> >> Aloha,
> >>     
> > Hi
> >   
> >> I first noticed your site over a year ago and it looks great! I run a 
> >> computer repair company here in Honolulu, and discovered splashy
> >>     
> > Wow, i hope to go there to spent my holidays when i'll get enought
> > moneys :D
> >   
> >>  
> >> required additional video memory in order to display properly. This was 
> >> ok for desktops, but bad for old laptops. So I put splashy on hold and 
> >> tried my luck with usplash.
> >>
> >> I would like to incorporate splashy into the latest Dapper live CD. 
> >> Particularly, how would you modify Casper and Isolinux so the live cd 
> >> knows to start splashy instead of usplash. The current Dapper live cd 
> >> already has usplash, but any enhancements to it breaks the live cd by 
> >> causing kernel panics. I really want to upgrade the kernel, but its 
> >> impossible to upgrade usplash.
> >>     
> > Splashy needs a framebuffer, i don't know how to do it with isolinux,
> > with grub or lilo i add "vga=791" to the kernel options. You should find
> > how to do the same with Isolinux.
> > Then when the init script of splashy-init starts it calculates the init
> > scripts for the progressbar and starts splashy server. 
> >
> > So the whole thing that you have to do is to install splashy on your cd
> > image and set isolinux to send vga=791 to the kernel.
> >   
> >> Could you please assist me? Hope to talk to you soon.
> >>     
> >
> > if you want more help mail me.
> > I can assist you more when i'll end my exams after 4th of July.
> >   
> >> Mahalo,
> >>
> >> Johnathan Davis
> >>     
> >
> > In my country we say: "Ciao"
> >
> > Best Regards
> >
> >   
-- 
Vincenzo Ampolo <vincenzo.ampolo at gmail.com>
http://www.nanofreesoft.org
http://vincenzoampolo.nanofreesoft.org
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