having trouble customizing AV linux live cd

[lokeyb]

Hopefully this is the right place to ask, if not my appologies.

I have been trying to make a customized ISO of AVL to get the best of both worlds - live mode with some personalization as well. As i understand it, remastersys basically does this automagically (and its included with AVL), however as i don't have the space to do a full istall of AVL to then run the remastersys dist utility i have been trying to do it manually.

So far my process has been to mount AV linux's filesystem.squashfs from the ISO, copy the whole filesystem out, tweak the files needed and then resquash it with mksquashfs. This has been for the most part successful - AVL will boot with my new squashed filesystem. And everything seems to work as before... except for one boot error just before starting X:

"starting defered execution scheduler: atd FAILED"

searching the net, it appears this is a timer daemon which allows apps scheduling. Typing atd in the console gave nothing Typing "at" gives me a message about "time garbled".




So i have three questions


1. Is my process a reasonable one given my intentions or are there some complications that I'm not considering -  is unsquashing>modifying>resquashing feasible?

2. What/why/how/who might be causing this time-related error?

3. When remastersys is making an ISO and squashing the filesystem, are there any particular options or additional steps made during the process that I may have neglected to included myself?


thanks for any advice or suggestions

[fragadelic]

Remastersys is meant to be run from a normal install.  You can do what you are doing but it won't be ideal.  What changes did you make to the original filesystem.squashfs?

[lokeyb]

Remastersys is meant to be run from a normal install. You can do what you are doing but it won't be ideal.  What changes did you make to the original filesystem.squashfs?

thanks for your reply fragadelic,

I would use remastersys if i could, but i don't have the space to do a full install + store all the remastersys temp files and a completed ISO. As i realised what i'm trying to do is basically similar to remastersys' process i just thought there might be some insight to gain by checking here.

The only thing i changed in the ISO's filesystem.squashfs was purely cosmetic (as a preliminary test) - a change of wallpaper and cursor - I just wanted to see if that would work before making more involved changes.

As it is though, I'm quite confused with the "time garbled" and the atd error and would not know where to start in finding the cause, but i would guess its something daft. If you don't have any clues then i might just ignore it or give up, not sure which yet though.

thanks again