myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: Adding myDSL files to the iso



the street hacker:

Also, check the following..

Did the md5sum from DSL website match your downloaded .iso file?
Does the CD boot from any other computers?
( bad media, bad burn ? )
From any other OS, do you see these directories and files on the CD?

/KNOPPIX
/boot
index.html

What was your burn speed in Nero?

73
ke4nt
FYI,

If you look at the knoppix 3.6 cheatcodes, the developers have added a boot command for booting directly from an *.ISO file.

So eventually DSL should support this when it gets remastered to a newer version of knoppix.  Check back here in 6 months or so.
I added a couple of small .dsl extensions (dock apps) to the root of the cd (I suppose), in the place where index.html (Are you still using windows...) and the autorun files go (if you use them) ( I get the autorun to work only occasionally, so I have done what 0.8.2 has done, and deleted them from the remaster.)
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When I boot the CD (remastered to include the above), the extensions are loaded (apparently), and named one by one. That is impressive and gives one a confirmation by name of each .dsl picked up by the system.
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Now, I cannot get them to appear, or boot. I can, but I have to return to the source device, sda1, where copies of the extensions are stored.
I did not have to do "mydsl=sda1" at the boot prompt, they were picked up automatically.
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I tried the MyDSL icon on the desktop, and unless I give the drive, sda1, then that cannot find the extensions. Also, I tried the menu, which gives the same MyDSL Click and Load GUI.
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I cannot understand why the extensions are found and named during bootup, but not in the menu at the top under MyDSL, unless I load them
via the MyDSL Click and Load GUI, by giving it the pen drive sda1 location. So, they are not loaded from the CD when I get them to work, only loaded from the pen drive.
I boot like this:
boot: dsl restore=sda1 toram
or
boot: dsl restore=hdb1 toram
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An associated problem: If you rename a backup.tar.gz to something like
101504_backup.tar.gz, and store it on a hard drive partition, etc., then the MyDSL system will try and load that like it was an extension. I often
store MyDSL extensions and backup.tar.gz in the root of a hard drive partition, and can do this at boot:
dsl restore=hdb1 mydsl=hdb1 toram
Then I see the error, which is apparently harmless, as the dated backup.tar.gz file is not an extension.
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Just trying to get a good grip on the mydsl system...
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 :D
Leave out the "toram" in your bootup commands, and see what happens.
Also, are you using "dsl" as your username?
The mydsl menu is built around user "dsl"  or symlinked "damnsmall"

73
ke4nt
I tried to produce an extended live-cd but went very very late to bed yesterday.

linux starts to boot but after a while there is an error message: KNOPPIX cannot be found.

I did the following:
- F2
- dsl toram
- open bash
- sudo su
- mkmydsl
- /mnt/hda1/master
- /mnt/hda1/iso
- copied *.dsl -> /mnt/hda1/master
- burned the cd
- reboot

I xcompared the original iso with the new iso.

On the original cd the folder KNOPPIX is written in BIG LETTERS as well as the file KNOPPIX.
On the new iso the folder knoppix is written in SMALL LETTERS as well as the file knoppix.

I was not able to change the small letters to big letters, even not when changing write permissions in emelfm. (I tried cp and mv, e.g. "mv knoppix KNOPPIX")

I used DSL rc 0.8.0 and 0.7.3.

What's the matter?
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