User Feedback :: Great but could someone help a little bit

Doing PXE server with DSL is now very easy.
You need to use the initrd edition of DSL and the pxedsl.tar.gz mydsl extension.
If you have some thin clients you should try it out.

Many thanks - I think it's inevitable that this is the way I will go eventually. Nice to know that things have got simpler. From memeory I think my problem was more server side. My machine picked up the server ok (mac recognition etc.) but the pxe server just wouldn't deliver the file (I installed 2 different flavours). I gave up in the end. I will add it back into the project plan.

I am quite a long way off understanding the remastering process at the moment so the thought of remastering an initrd (initial ramdisk) version scares me a bit at the moment!

C.

No need to remaster to make an initrd.
The initrd edition is available for download as an iso see the download section.

Sure, I'll do that. I was thinking more along the lines of once I have rewritten the .lua files etc.

Could I switch this conversation to my more immediate needs (if that's ok

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1. With the toram option, do I need a swap drive. I have run dsl with the toram option previously and it has worked fantastically. Have any users come across restrictions?

2. Could someone point me in the direction of a good article that explains how the dsl filesystem (file system) works? I have worked with windows far too long. For example:

I don't understand why the Knoppix folder is 4MB. I thought it should be 50MB?
Why doesn't dsl autoload all the drives? Why doesn't is just go ahead and mount everything it can?
In the latest version the drives I have set up do not appear in the mount tool (they did previously) hda1, hda2 etc.
The cd-rom folder contains stuff and there is no cd-rom in the drive.
What is the etc folder and so on - I just don't know what I am looking at!!

Many thanks!

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With the toram option, do I need a swap drive

- no, not if you have enough ram

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I don't understand why the Knoppix folder is 4MB. I thought it should be 50MB?

- the file /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX is +/- 50MB

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The cd-rom folder contains stuff and there is no cd-rom in the drive

- from memory, this is what is in the root directory of your boot partition. The actual cd drive will be somewhere else, depending on its interface (ide, scsi, usb, etc).

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What is the etc folder and so on

- this is where you put configuration files for various applications.

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