User Feedback :: My beef with DLS 8.0
Re:What the hell?
I am convinced that no matter what choices we make with DSL it will be impossible to please everyone. Last time there was a thread about how we 'blew it' for not using isolinux.
John
Don't think you blew it at all I am probably in the wrong forum for my problem but I noticed in this thread someone else had the booting problem too. Is it just an unsupported hardware thing?
I would encourage everyone to be patient. Things will shake out and all will be right with the world again. There may be some machines that will only be able to handle 0.7.3. That is just one of the necessary evils of software in general. It's just impossible to have a solution for every possible hardware configuration out there.
Just for some perspective, I remember when 0.5.3 was considered the last "good" version of DSL by many users.......... 
Is it possible to remaster DSL 0.8.0 using syslinux instead of Isolinux? The whole thing isn't as easy as two versions, is it? I mean, can vmlinuz be replaced with a renamed linux24 from the new distro's boot.img, and miniroot.gz with the new version minirt24? Then the kernal would be correct for all of the applications. I can mount the 0.7.3 boot image using:
mount -ro loop /cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img /mnt/floppy
mkdir test
cp -rp /mnt/floppy/* test
umount /mnt/floppy
and change the contents of that directory. Does anyone know how to repackage the boot.img file once I make changes to it? If I could do that, why couldn't I take the KNOPPIX directory from 0.8.0 and the boot.img and cat files from 0.7.3 and get the best of both worlds (for those who need it)?
I see your point. However, rather than sit still and just voice my disatisfaction, I did the typical geek thing.
I hacked. Here's what I did;
1) I downloaded the 0.8.0 iso image and the boot.img (The 0.80) version
2) Extracted the files to a folder and removed the "boot" folder from the equation.
3) made a boot floppy with rawrite.
4) used the floppy as part of the burning of a bootCD
5) Added the "Knoppix" and "Lostandfound" and other folder containing the usual goodies that I like to include
6) burned the CD.
*Note; If that solution looks amateurish, it's only because I am learning about hacking images. It also may bring to light a solution or inspire a solution to the problem.
BTW, it worked for me and I got my hacked version of 0.8.0 going. I am rather proud of that trick.
So this tells me one thing, If we are to go into that direction, Do include the components to make it so that we can make it still compatible with the older hardware.
That way we get the best of both worlds. I will repeat the operation to see if it wasn't a fluke. When I know it's good enough, I'll share the iso with the rest of yah (unless someone can do it sooner. it's not that complicated I think).
TBM
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