myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: How do i run .dls applications?
Do you have 384MB of RAM?
The Openoffice.dsl extension requires 384MB of RAM.
If you want a less RAM-intensive extension for Open Office, try downloading the Openoffice.ci and OOuser.tar.gz files in the "Compressed ISO" section of the myDSL repository.
As for Firefox, you can do one of the following:
Wait for the new firefox extension to appear in the repository.
Use the Right-click Fluxbox menu to download it. I believe the path is Apps -> Net -> got the bandwidth -> Firefox or something like that.
Then add /opt/firefox to your backup list. The file is called filetool.lst
HTH
I've got 512 mb ram, so i hope that's enough. Is it a problem that I used the dsl toram option?
For the firefox, thanks, I wasnt sure what happened to it.
I'm thinking of making a DSL cd that will have OOo and Firefox already installed, with the icons on the desktop, but I'm gonna wait until DSL 0.8 to try it (one of my computers works better with the newer knoppix). Does that require more than just adding the .dsl files to the ISO?
Nope.
All you need to do is add the files to the top directory of the ISO.
My suggestion is to install both the firefox.ci (and the companion ffuser.tar.gz) and the openoffice.ci (and companion oouser.tar.gz) to the ISO.
The compressed ISO files use much less RAM.
However, if you have a need for speed the *.dsl files will run from inside the RAM disk. They will use up RAM but they will run even faster.
Adding the .dsl files to the top directory worked perfectly. Thanks.
DonttPanic: I remaster all the time the way you did with WinISO. I put all the .dsl files I want available in the optional directory, even .ci files. The directory gets scanned at boot, but they don't load. Then I load up from the mydsl menu whichever program I want to run. Any dsl you want loaded everytime at boot, like firefox, you can put in the top level directory. If you are using WinISO, you want to click on the CDROM icon or the title next to it and that selects the top-level, then drop your stuff on the right-hand pane. When you download stuff from the repository prior to building a new ISO w/ WinISO, go ahead and put the .dsls in a directory called optional. Then when you edit the dsl0.7.3.iso, you can just add a directory rather than a file or files at a time. This also gets around the problem of not being able to create a new directory in the WinISO program.
Another problem w/ this program is that occasionally when you make an incremental change to your ISO file, like adding or removing some .dsl after testing, when you try to save, the entire program will lock up, give an error or crash. I get around this by using save as and incrementing my ISO file by a number or letter. e.g. DSL073-B1.ISO, DSL073-B2.ISO I keep the last 2-3 ISOs in my f:\iso\damnsmall directory and just delete a few every now and then. Welcome to the remastering world. I hate downloading stuff over and over again.
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