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I do not know what I am doing wrong, but I have tried to put the extension for firefox in the hda1 root, booting with a 'clean' DSL 0.7; it recognizes the presence of the file, it loads it and when it is setting the screen I get the same message as before with the extension in the CDRom.

Now i reproduce the message: "/chmode: home/damnsmall/-xserverrc: no such file or directory", and then other messages, "xauth timeout...", other related to the type of server...
but the X do not work... :(

*/Teobromina/*
Teobrmina, The only thing that will cause your problem is a permission error. You must have opened up the tar.gz to add/change/delete something. When repackaged the permissions got changed. I know I have done this too.

Make a work directory, and then unpack the .tar.gz into that work directory. Doing an ls -la should show home and opt directories. Next cd into home inside this directory structure. Do an ls -la You probably have damnsmall directory with owner and group root root. To fix this do a chown -R damnsmall.staff damnsmall then cd .. to get back to the work dir. Then repack
tar -cvf firefox.tar home/ opt/
then remove the orginal firefox.tar.gz
rm firefox.tar.gz
then
gzip firefox.tar

That will fix your problem!
Charpie, The xsetup usb mouse option is still in there. Are you having the problem with your custom made cd? You are experiencing no xsetup questions? If so, then you must have your .xserverrc inside one of your extensions.
Roberts

No I just did a cd burn of dsl 7 and put firefox and ace on the roots. I also did one without any extension. The one with the extension bypass the setup menu and does not allow me to choose for a usb mouse. the one without any extension ie dsl 7 only still works like the previous and does allow me to pick usb.

so i guess that the boot up routine when it detect other extension software boot up in the default mode for some reasons

This works great on my laptop since it uses a ps2 mouse, however my main sytem is on a usb optical mouse.

ciao!
Thanks Charpie,
I got it!  There is a problem with, guess what, permissions in the tmp directory inside the ace.dsl
To fix it...
copy ace.dsl to a work directory
then use tar -zxvf ace.dsl
then chmod 777 tmp/
then tar -cvf ace.tar tmp/ usr/
then gzip ace.tar
finally mv ace.tar.gz ace.dsl
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