Remastering TTYLinux

Ingredients :
1. Ubuntu 12.04 netinstall disc or any working Debian machine

Initial setup commands:
# apt-get update
# apt-get upgrade

Dependancy package required for the rebuilding of the TTYLinux image
# apt-get install x (x being the package listed below)
build-essential
autoconf
automake
bzip2
mkisofs
bin86
gawk
flex
bison
ncurses-dev
docbook-utils
pkg-config
gettext
libglib2.0-dev
libfuse-dev
libpam-dev

!! Warning "docbook-utils" will use about 500mb files, go make some coffee
!! mkisofs is depreciated and replace by genisoimage
!! overcome this by # sudo ln -s /usr/bin/genisoimage /usr/bin/mkisofs

Grab a copy of the TTYLinux for remastering

# cd /tmp
# wget https://github.com/djerome/ttylinux/tarball/master -O ttylinux.tar.gz --no-check-certificate

Untar the compress file
# tar zxf ttylinux.tar.gz

Go to the directory
# cd /tmp/djerome-ttylinux-xxxxxxx# (press tab to autocomplete as the xxxxxxx are different between version)

Edit the UDHCPD configuration settings
cd /tmp/djerome-ttylinux-5ece876/ttylinux-build/pkg-cfg/busybox-1.21.0

# nano _bbox-stnd.cfg
^w (CTRL + W)
type in UDHCPD

Before:
# CONFIG_UDHCPD is not set
# CONFIG_DHCPRELAY is not set
# CONFIG_DUMPLEASES is not set
# CONFIG_FEATURE_UDHCPD_WRITE_LEASES_EARLY is not set
# CONFIG_FEATURE_UDHCPD_BASE_IP_ON_MAC is not set
CONFIG_DHCPD_LEASES_FILE=""

After:
CONFIG_UDHCPD=y
CONFIG_DHCPRELAY=y
CONFIG_DUMPLEASES=y
CONFIG_FEATURE_UDHCPD_WRITE_LEASES_EARLY=y
# CONFIG_FEATURE_UDHCPD_BASE_IP_ON_MAC is not set
CONFIG_DHCPD_LEASES_FILE="/var/lib/mis/udhcpd.leases"

^O (CTRL + O)
^X (CTRL + X)

Cross-tool chain process
# cd /tmp/djerome-ttylinux-5ece876/xbuildtool
# make setup
# make x86_64-2.14-gnu

!! Took 37 minutes 58 seconds

Compile and build TTYLinux

cd /tmp/djerome-ttylinux-5ece876/ttylinux-build
make getcfg

option 6 for pc_x86_64_defconfig

depend you preference you can now edit the newly created ttylinux-config.sh to comment out/exclude the package which you don't wished to compile with the package.

Download TTYLinux source packages
# make dload

Make the TTYLinux ISO
# make dist

Took 12 minutes 52 seconds (2days actually of painful back and forth troubleshooting !)

!! The BusyBox script even with answer "Y for the DHCPRELAY the configuration file, it was stopping and waiting for a Y/n.
!! I pressed Y and press ENTER ... it continue. So life goes on

* I went back and comment out NTFS-3g because it keep erroring out and I didnt really require it. Even download the so call missing libntfs* file, it didn't help.
* I eventually comments alot of stuff which keep giving me errors :)

After all that is done (cross-building packages), its goes into compiling the TTYLinux kernel

I ftp my ISO from the virtual machine to the host FTP server.

[ref] http://blog.thewulph.com/?p=323