have mercy on us DSL fans with the itsy-bitsy hard-drive-only laptops. Oh, how we suffer.
It has always been the liveCD guys who suffer. We could never add more apps without that awful and hard on your hardware remastering. Even with small hard drives you guys can add some apps.
Really, I think it is great to see how everyone is creative in using the system. It is from the creativity of these fourms that gives me ideas to improve the system.Hi,
Like many others, I am really pleased at the opportunity to make DSL extendable via the my-dsl idea.
Others have pointed out that it allows applications to be 'kept' when a new version of DSL is available. True, but it also allows applications to be 'updated' without mucking about with DSL, which is just about as useful as the other advantage.
But, I have a problem. It is likely that I have taken my 'thicko' pills but, even after reading this post, I am not sure how to actually use the new extension method.
I have a HD install, to the /dev/hda6 partition. I boot into DSL using 'loadlin' as follows:
loadlin vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 ro
The 'vmlinuz' is copied (and renamed coz I hate typing) from the /boot folder of the HD install.
This method works fine to boot DSL but I can not figure out how to get it to 'include' the '.dsl' files.
For example, if I have 'gnu-utils.dsl', should it be in the root of /dev/hda6 or can it be somewhere else?
If it is allowed to be (for example) in the root of /dev/hda2, how do I get DSL to use it?
One (of the many!) reasons I ask is that when booting the HD install, I don't get the 'boot:' prompt, at which an entry like 'dsl mydsl=hda2' could be made.
Sorry of these questions seem silly.
Regards,
Geoff.If you did an HD-install, then all you gotta do is go to the / directory and tar -zxf the *.dsl extensions. They'll be installed for you. Then you can just make the shortcuts in the /home/damnsmall/.xtdesktop directory. It's actually pretty easy.
And making your own is fun and easy. I've got the Java plugin for Firefox extension made, and I'm workin' on the MPlayer one.I've enjoyed building several .dsl's in the last week or so, but the mplayer is proving tough... I've actually got a nice mplayer.dsl working, but the gmplayer - another story.. mplayer.dsl runs fine from command line. I'd like to have the icon and .lnk bring up gmplayer, if I could get gmplayer to run... any ideas...
I hope to post up several ham radio apps later this week...
I would like to have the java plugin... Have you sent it to Robert or John?
73 ke4ntNot sure if I'm doing osmething wrong here, but the .dsl extensions seem to muck up the running of the DSL live CD. Bascially made CD-RW into DSL v0.7, with some extensions installed on my USB stick. Got to boot propmt and entered 'dsl mydsl=sda2 enhance'
This loaded the enhanced desktop with the new icons. But the fluxbox menu was reduced to three items, none of th new icons worked and the mounting app had gone from the slit. Also, the netcardconfig app wouldn't work.
Rebooted with just the CD and everything was as it shoudl be.
