Revised version of Remastering HowTo

[utu]

@ Werner

I've not used Virtual Box, but I have many MBs on my Win7 laptop.
Can I use a Window-based Virtual box to do what I need to do?

I'd rather not partition my HDD, if I don't need-to.

[Werner P. Schulz]

... VirtualBox also runs on Windows host - why not on Windows 7?

But "many MBs" will not be enough . For remastering with my scripts you need 7 GB.

Please reload "summary.html". Today I changed this page and I hope, now all is clearly arranged.

[Capricorny]

@ Werner
I'd rather not partition my HDD, if I don't need-to.

Strictly speaking, you never need to. You can just create a big file on an NTFS partition, set it up with a Linux file system, mount and run from that. As you know, that's exactly the same way persistent store is set up and used. You can of course also add rc.local commands to do this at boot time. Would run a bit faster than in VM, I'd guess.

[Werner P. Schulz]

... yes you never need to partition your HD. VirtualBox creates a big and dynamic growing file and uses it as a virtual harddrive. Creating a filesystem in this virtual harddrive and installing grub as bootmanager will be done by the Knoppix CD.