Other Help Topics :: needd further help with mkmydsl
OK, I've tried running the mkmydsl script under Tools, and although it runs and creates an iso file on the HD, during the process of making it I get the error message "Operation failed. Failed to retain ownership of" then the file name. I burned a disk using the iso file, and it seems to contain everything, but it won't boot. The boot line options I want put in automatically are: "dsl toram dsl vga=normal". Part of the problem is that I have (until VERY recently) been away from computers for over ten years, and am totally unfailiar with ISO files, burning CDs, etc., and I'm unfamiliar with a lot of the terminology as well. I don't mind trying things on my own to learn, but it may take someone here taking me by the hand and walking me though this, or drawing me a very detailed picture, or something. Again, any and all help will be greatly appreciated from an old newbie.

If you're using a fat partition to do this, your ISO will be broken. Fat cannot handle linux file permissions/ownership.
You'll need to create your ISO on a linux filesystem, or in /ramdisk if you have enough ram.
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