If you noticed , there were no new posts for the last few months. The reason is I made a big change in my life.

I moved to Canada !!!!!

It is fall now and I can smell the winter coming. I am sure that I will not like winter :(

well, now I am more or less settled and will continue sharing my knowledge!

Why I mentioned it as full remastering is, DSL now offers a convenient way to create your own DSL flavor using DSL extensions. But I prefer full remastering since it gives me more control.

Its mainly through trail and error that I found the steps to significantly change DSL to suit my needs. Of course few links helped me. But nearly at the end of my quest I came across a wonderful book by the creators of DSL, and I think that is the definitive guide you should read if you are interested in remastering.

Negus Live Linux Series The Official Damn Small Linux® Book: The Tiny Adaptable Linux® That Runs on Anything
by Robert Shingledecker; John Andrews; Christopher Negus

I thought of creating a VMware Image of Sahana with a easy download size as much as possible. Making changes to Debian or Ubuntu is very much easy and I could have easily created a Sahana VMWare image based on that. But its not nice to expect a user to download a 700MB image to try out Sahana. So I evaluated several ISOs and finally selected DSL which is around 50M in size.
After successfully running the DSL ISO in VMWare I tried to install DSL in a virtual disk.
At first I create the virtual disk with QEMU and modified the VMX file to use it, I expected a SCSI virual disk and I could not get VMWare to recognize the disk I created with QEMU as SCSI.