This is a page dedicated to people who want to get their hands inside dyne:bolic and modify it.

Modify the ISO with dbspac and dbpacc

Two shell scripts

dbspac reads an ISO image from a file or from a raw CD device, and unpacks it into a directory tree on your hard disk, into which you can chroot and, to a certain extent, test.

dbpacc is the opposite - it packs up a runnable tree and creates a dyne:bolic ISO image for burning to CDs.

You need lots of disk space: dyne:bolic's 444MB CDROM unpacks to 1.8GB of data, and the packing process requires a further 444MB of temporary space as well as the 444MB for the new ISO image it is creating.

System requirements

You will need a pentium computer running Linux kernel 2.4.19 or later, with the squashfs kernel patches applied to the kernel and the squashfs tools installed.

If you want to compile programs to include in dyne:bolic, your system must compile against GLIBC 2.2 or earlier - GLIBC2.3 is not yet included in dyne:bolic (and may never be if we pass to using uclibc in the next release... watch this space!). You can find out if you have a compatible GLIBC on your system by compiling a simple C program, copying the binary executable onto a running dyne:bolic system and trying to run it. If you have GLIBC2.3 it will say so.

Whence?

These scripts are available under http://freaknet.org/martin/dynebolic

Further help is available in the comments at the top of the scripts themselves.