HD Install :: Just the few last things



Okay.. I've successfully installed, tweaked and finished my DSL system. Removed and added icons, installed GRUB instead of LILO and all such things... last mostly because I like GRUB better.

Anyway I got 2 problems and some of your guys input is really needed here.
The small thing first.
1. Is it, and if so.. how, possible to install a custom bootscreen which is displayed instead of all the boot text with "configuring devices" and all of that before and after.
I've never done this before, so I'm totally blank here. I need to make a bootscreen which displays the company's logo instead and add.

2. The worst problem however is this: I can't make a ghost ( Norton Ghost 7.5 ) of the harddisk. If I used LILO I got the L 99 99 99 99 thing and after I switched to GRUB, it simply boots and displays "GRUB" and then stops.
HOW do I make a working image of my DSL setup.. do I need another utility than Norton Ghost ? Is G4U better for this ?

Sincerly
-Daxziz
1.
Search google for KNOPPIX AND SPLASH

2.
Use RAW image backup for Ghost.  I don't know if 7.5 supports this.  Ghost 2000PE does.  G4U will also work but if I remember correctly it needs a G4U image server to work.
Will do that for the bootscreen. Thx.

I thought about RAW for Ghost too, but I couldn't find an option in either 7.5 or 2003 for RAW. Any help here ?
I tried G4U - made the floppies and booted. After second floppy was initialized ( or whatever to call it ) it died in a fatal error. I think it wrote something with Trap 6. I guess it by all means rules G4U out. :(


-Daxziz
Ars forgot to login before :(

Anyway... after searching google with those 2 keywords I stumbled across this:
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The file logo.16 is located on the boot floppy image (/KNOPPIX/boot.img)
on the Knoppix CD. The file format is lss, a special format readable by
the Syslinux bootloader. Two conversion tools (lss16toppm, ppmtolss16)
exist on the CD to convert from/to the more popular ppm format. Note that
the image can have only 16 different colors and has to be 640x480 or
smaller. The lss format is compressed (runlength encoded).


Now I once did make a small "banner" like image in another custom Linux edit, but I thought it was just an image which was shown to begin with, but would later on be replaced when the boottext flushed down the screen.
Will this be the way to add a bootscreen which hides the boottext ?


-Daxziz
No.

That is the initial boot screen, not the splash screen.

Maybe a better search term would be

knoppix AND splash AND screen.

FYI,
You can use DSL to do your image backups. Something like this:

http://www.sysdesign.ca/guides/partitions.html
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