german language .iso and .img

[nil]

Hi,
a problem of webconverger is the language-support. I build my own
german ISO-image (manupulation in /isolinux/live.cfg) to use the
german language after boot without editing the boot-options. Is it
possible to copy a german image to http://download.webconverger.org ?
New people do not have the knowledge to build their own iso-image.

[Kai Hendry]

I don't think it's that hard to append "locale=de" to the kernel command line?

http://webconverger.org/i18n/

I better solution would be a syslinux menu, which one can choose their
desired locale in a GUI similar to how Ubuntu does it.

[GMF]

> I don't think it's that hard to append "locale=de" to the kernel command line?

It´s hard when you use the iso-image. ;)

>
> I better solution would be a syslinux menu, which one can choose their
> desired locale in a GUI similar to how Ubuntu does it.

Yeah.
This would be a great option. Let me check this one ...

[Justin Scott]

> It´s hard when you use the iso-image. ;)

Nah, just unpack the ISO, edit the file, and re-package it. No need to
re-compile everything for that.

-Justin

[Guttorm Flatabø]

Could you share the commands you use for doing that? I've tried editing the ISO with some ISO editor of which I don't remember the name just now, but the resulting CD wouldn't boot.

-Guttorm 

[Justin Scott]

> Could you share the commands you use for doing that? I've
> tried editing the ISO with some ISO editor of which I don't
> remember the name just now, but the resulting CD wouldn't
> boot.

I don't know off hand how you would do it on a *nix system (I'm positive it
can be done though), but on my Windows 7 box I used Magic ISO Maker
(www.magiciso.com) to do the unpack/repack without any problems for small
changes to the text configuration files.

-Justin

[GMF]

OK. Lost 2 letters. ;)
It´s hardER when you use the iso-image. ;)

[Steve Robson]

Here's how I did it in Linux (and with the USB image):
The squashfs filesystem is constructed using sfs v4. Which is annoying
as I built a Debian "lenny" system, complete with squashfs but it's only
v3 and won't read the v4 sfs! Compiled v4 & also had to install zlib
and set /usr/bin/gcc to v4.1.3 (not v4.3.2). Copied
<mnt>/live/filesystem.squashfs off USB stick. Used 'unsquashfs' to
unpack it.
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/unsquashfs -d /path/to/squashfs-root
filesystem.squashfs
Can now inspect the unpacked filesystem, under /path/tp/squashfs-root
Repacked with:
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/mksquashfs squashfs-root ./filesystem.squashfs
Then used info at http://webconverger.org/usb as usual to write the USB
stick.

-Steve

[Guttorm Flatabø]

Thanks!

--Guttorm 

 

[nil]

Thank you. I use another way to modify the menu.cfg:

mkdir /mnt
mkdir /mnt2
mount -o loop webc-6.0.iso /mnt
rsync -av /mnt /mnt2
vim /mnt2/isolinux/live.cfg
mkisofs -o cd.iso -b -r -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-
table -b
isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat /mnt2

i think it is a little problem for a linux-beginner ,-)

> > Then used info athttp://webconverger.org/usbas usual to write the USB
> > stick.
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> > -Steve
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