Remastersys worked, but....

[rahim]

Hello all,

I just tried Remastersys for the first time. I used it under rather unique circumstances. I installed an Ubuntu 7.04 command line system in VMware from the alternate install CD. Then I installed Ubuntulite packages. Then I installed remastersys. Since it requires a live CD to create the remaster, I mounted a Xubuntu 7.04 live CD image I had, and sure enough, it created a nice tidy ~ 340MB live CD that actually works. But....

What's the username and password of my remaster? I used the "dist" option. I tried my previous username, I tried "ubuntu", "kubuntu" "ubiquity", everything I could think of. Aside from that, Remastersys is great! Thanks for the help!

[Fragadelic]

The default autologin username is "ubuntu". It is possible that your lite version is missing something at the moment.

[picoshark]

I am having similar problems, both on Ubuntu 7.04 and Celena 3.1 versions. When I boot the CD (that I have created from custombackup.iso), the install icon eventually fails with a dialog of:

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Failed to run /usr/lib/ubiquity/bin/ubiquity 'gtkui' as root. Wrong Password

I tried root password, first user password, and ubuntu. I can get around it however, by logging out, and logging back in as my first user (admin) and running Install from the menus. It then works fine.

During the install I get a dialog about Grub:

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The Grub package failed to install into /target/. Installing Grub as a boot loader is a required step. The install problem might be unrelated to Grub however, so continuing the install might be possible.

I seem to get this every time I boot/install the CD, but it has always continued on and custombackup.iso will boot properly.

[jhouse59]

I made a couple of LiveDVDs. When I tried to install them (to see if they would work) it would ask for a password. Nothing would work. dragonwings recommended having my computer to do a auto login. That seems to work. When I clicked on install it didn't ask for a password. I didn't go ahead with the install. I just wanted to see if if would ask for the password. I'm using Mint 3.0 Cassandra with GNOME desktop.

[jhouse59]

On 9/13/07 I had made a backup of Cassadra. The DVD boots up alright. Since I was going to install Celena. On 10/08/07, thought that I'd install the backup. Every thing went alright. It asked for my password but, took my user name password. When it got done doing the install. I got an error message about Grub. I didn't think till I rebooted to make a note of it. When it rebooted it didn't give me a choice. It just booted into Windows. I don't know how a distro would work.

[Fragadelic]

Do you remember what the error message was?

[jhouse59]

Do you remember what the error message was?

No I don't. I just click the ok button. I didn't think to make a note of it till my computer rebooted. When I installed Celena. My splash screen list two Mint install on the hard drive it's installed on. But, both says Mint KDE. No mater which one I chose it boots into my KDE install. If it would help you I can post what the Grub menu.1st says from both partitions (KDE and Gnome - backup) says.They're different. Or, if you need a screen shot of the GNOME Partition Editor of the drive. I'm thinking of reinstalling it. But, I don't want to mess my boot of Celena up. I don't know if I could get it back if I messed the boot up.