Dissapointment....

**LaRoza** · August 17th, 2008

Originally Posted by DouglasAWh

maybe the official mailing list rather than the forum? My understanding is the forum isn't officially tied to ubuntu.

This is the official Ubuntu forum (servers and licenses owned by Canonical) but it isn't the best way to contact developers.

**Cariboo1938** · August 17th, 2008

Originally Posted by LaRoza

This is the official Ubuntu forum (servers and licenses owned by Canonical) but it isn't the best way to contact developers.

@LaRoza:
Thanks...
What would you recommend to do?

**chris4585** · August 17th, 2008

Originally Posted by Cariboo1938

Thanks for the reply...
Did you make live CDs from Ubuntu -amd64?
From the developer of remastersys I quote his opinion on that issue:
BTW "http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=688872" is far beyond my capabilities

I'm using Ubuntu 32bit version, the thread i pointed to you more than likely would be able to help, the script remastersys and the howto i showed you are nearly the same, remastersys is just automated, this is probably your best option, hope it works!

**Cariboo1938** · August 18th, 2008

Originally Posted by chris4585

I'm using Ubuntu 32bit version, .......this is probably your best option, hope it works!

I moved all my /home files and I choose the option "dist" which also eliminates the personal data but it didn't help. There must be something different for the 64bit version! Thanks anyway. I try to bring the Ubuntu developers and Fragadelic, the developer of remastersys, together!

**DouglasAWh** · August 19th, 2008

Originally Posted by LaRoza

This is the official Ubuntu forum (servers and licenses owned by Canonical) but it isn't the best way to contact developers.

So the info in this thread is old or incorrect? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=176622

It says

Ubuntuforums is not being run by canonical. It was started by ubuntu-geek using his own money.

**Cariboo1938** · September 1st, 2008

I still have to struggle with the backup issue of my Ubuntu 8.04-amd64 installation.
It seems to me that Remastersys is a very useful script but I'm not expert enough to figure out why it's not working.
I was told it must have something to do with "casper".

**Fragadelic** · October 6th, 2008

The issue has to do with the iso9660 file size limit of 4 Gig and isn't an issue with casper or ubiquity or even genisoimage.

When too much data is backup up, the filesystem.squashfs file grows beyond the 4 Gig limit and the iso file cannot be created. Only fix is to reduce the amount of data you are including.

I've already explained this on my forum but just thought I'd put some info here in case anyone was wondering the outcome of this.