OscarTalks wrote:To change your starting country/language setting in a remaster I think you have to edit /etc/profile
Around line 100 you should see
#this line gets edited by chooselocale script...
Below that you need to comment out the en_US line and just have
LANG=en_GB
export LANG
Then at first boot it should all be as you want it for the UK. I did this with mine and it is all OK but it was a while ago so I hope I remembered correctly what I did. This was a manual remaster of the main Puppy .sfs file.
That was perfect thanks Oscar - just as I wanted it. Now when you boot it still prompts for locale/language etc - but you can just accept the defaults and it drops through without having to restart X (whilst leaving the option to choose other languages/locale if needed).
My LiveCD now starts up relatively quickly (80MB iso), sets locale quickly (as above) and a click on the connect and accepting the simple network settings (few clicks) usually has you connected to the net relatively quickly.
I've also dropped in a quick firewall and sound setup script, which invokes the wizard (loads a database of sound cards etc) i.e. simple and quick. On the CD I've also included some scripts to load flash, firefox (version 29 with a select few add-ons (no script, flash block, zoom)), libre office 4.2.3 (with UK dictionary) and multimedia (Openshot, Blender, Audacity, Mesa, inkscape (full version), xvidcap). There's also a script to load all of those via a single click (LOAD_ALL script).
I've set boot parameters to pfix=ram pmedia=cd pkeys=uk so it boots to ram and those scripts all load into ram, so no HDD even required/touched. The downside of that is you can't create a savefile (otherwise the loaded sfs's get loaded twice).
I use a nvidia based PC and using the inbuild nvidia drivers Openshot works ok (providing mesa is loaded) and will correctly run 3D title rendering (that it uses Blender for) and scrolling titles (that it uses inkscape for). Another PC also does the same (Radeon).
Booting just to do some internet banking (80MB iso) is relatively quick - just needing the firefox load after having booted to the desktop. Loading everything else (LOAD-ALL) is still relatively acceptable speed wise - and the CD drive is free after loading (leaving the PC running purely from RAM only). Installing puppy sfs and the EXTRAS folder to HDD obviously improves speed. I'm seeing CD load speeds comparable to how quickly it takes to dowload the same from googledrive (I have a 50Mb - 75Mb internet connect D/L speed (around 6MB/sec)), so in concept there's not much difference between having EXTRAS local (on CD/DVD) than it is to pull those down from googledrive. Puppy ISO + EXTRA's weighs in at around 390MB total iso size (i.e. EXTRAS is around 300MB which takes around 50 seconds on my internet connection.
ISO also includes a couple of windows iso burning programs (32 bit and 64 bit versions), so in concept if you used the cloud to store your data and files, then given a blank cd and internet connection, relatively quickly you could have downloaded a puppy and be up and running with a full desktop (with comprehensive office and multimedia editing capabilities) relatively quickly - and all running in ram.
This is my (messy - needs a good tidy up)
googledrive shared folder where the iso's are stored. s533t.iso is the 80MB desktop iso whilst s533t-OFFICE.iso is the full version (with the additional EXTRA's folder).
Thanks to all who offered help. I'm pretty close to if not at a final version now of a liveCD that does more or less everything I need.