[satuser083]

I'm trying to run mylivecd on my gnome-mmxii system, but it crashes at the "Creating compressed image" stage - well, it just hangs there, so I assume that it's crashed. My system uses 8.2Gb of a 10.9Gb partition. Is this too large for mylivecd or is there too little space to execute the script? Would appreciate some tips, please. Thanks in advance.

[ongoto]

You need a bigger partition, sad to say. I'd suggest 16 gigs minimum.
The filesystem size limit is around 10 gB for mylivecd to still work.

[satuser083]

You need a bigger partition, sad to say. I'd suggest 16 gigs minimum.
The filesystem size limit is around 10 gB for mylivecd to still work.

Many thanks. Did as you suggested, copied my system to a spare HDD with 22GB, got it running, did a BleachBit (but not a BleachBit root), then restarted mylivecd, with the arguments --gzip new.iso (as suggested by Tex ). After just over 90 minutes it crashed; this is the complete terminal-output (sorry for the verbosity)

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[root@localhost ~]# mylivecd --gzip new.iso
mylivecd, version 0.9.5, http://pclinuxos.com/
Copyright (C) 2010, Texstar <texstar at gmail.com>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Disabling Services not needed on the LiveCD

running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del atd
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del crond
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del syslog
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 2: shorewall(start) messagebus(start) messagebus(stop)
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 3: shorewall(start) nscd(start) messagebus(start) messagebus(stop)
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 4: shorewall(start) nscd(start) messagebus(start) messagebus(stop)
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 5: shorewall(start) nscd(start) messagebus(start) messagebus(stop)
Warning: syslog is needed by script(s) in runlevel 7: messagebus(start) messagebus(stop)
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del kheader
running: /sbin/chkconfig --list
running: chkconfig --del xinetd

Creating initrd:                                   [100.00% 00:00:13/00:00:13]
Setting filesystem parameters:                     [100.00% 00:16:51/00:16:51]
Creating compressed image:                         [100.00% 01:06:46/01:06:46]
Creating isolinux boot:                            [100.00% 00:00:03/00:00:03]
Creating final iso:                                [100.00% 00:00:01/00:00:01]
                                                                             
Restoring Services on the installed system

running: chkconfig --add atd
running: chkconfig --add crond
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 2
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 3
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 4
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 5
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 2
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 3
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 4
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 5
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 2
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 3
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 4
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 5
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 2
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 3
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 4
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 5
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 2
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 3
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 4
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 5
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 2
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 3
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 4
Warning: syslog is needed by crond in runlevel 5
running: chkconfig --add syslog
running: chkconfig --add kheader
running: chkconfig --add xinetd
ls: cannot access new.iso: No such file or directory
Argument "" isn't numeric in division (/) at /usr/sbin/mylivecd line 248.

Created 'new.iso' (0,000 bytes) in 01:32:32


I've looked at /usr/sbin/mylivecd on line 248, but it means nothing to me. Any further ideas?

And thanks, once again.

[ongoto]

It appears you are doing all the right things. My best guess is that, after compression, the final iso size exceeded the 4GB limit of mylivecd. The --gzip option is the fastest, but it offers the least compression. Without any options (--gzip, --lzma) the compression defaults to --xz which offers the most compact iso possible, but it takes 3 times longer.

Because of the size of your filesystem you should take your time and try using mylivecd with no options:
$ mylivecd new.iso
It might take 3 hours or more, but it should produce what you want.

Also, you might check here about moving your filesystem to another partition.

[satuser083]

It appears you are doing all the right things. My best guess is that, after compression, the final iso size exceeded the 4GB limit of mylivecd. The --gzip option is the fastest, but it offers the least compression. Without any options (--gzip, --lzma) the compression defaults to --xz which offers the most compact iso possible, but it takes 3 times longer.

Because of the size of your filesystem you should take your time and try using mylivecd with no options:
$ mylivecd new.iso
It might take 3 hours or more, but it should produce what you want.

Also, you might check here about moving your filesystem to another partition.

Great; tried it again as you suggested and the answer now is:

Created 'new_01.iso' (2988,584,960 bytes) in 03:31:48 ( )

Will now try Live USB Creator and report back. Many thanks, so far.

Edit: 23:00 GMT; my bed is calling. It had been running for more than 3 hours (before I killed it); is this likely to be correct? Perhaps there's another snag somewhere (on my part, I mean )

[ongoto]

Great; tried it again as you suggested and the answer now is:

Created 'new_01.iso' (2988,584,960 bytes) in 03:31:48 ( )

Will now try Live USB Creator and report back. Many thanks, so far.

Edit: 23:00 GMT; my bed is calling. It had been running for more than 3 hours (before I killed it); is this likely to be correct? Perhaps there's another snag somewhere (on my part, I mean )

I noticed your post on the main forum about liveusb creator. Glad to see they helped you even though you use Gnome. Things are looking up.