Other Help Topics :: ReMastering HOWTO for DSL

thanks to everyone for the info here, especially the howto by meo. i don't have much ram so i just make the built directories on an ext2 partition.

i have made a remaster for use on my friends computer which has a tendency to lock up when it's meant to be providing musical entertainment, sometimes windows just can't take the pressure basically the rest of the cd is filled with music which i put in newcd/music, can fit about 10 albums on there. when it boots up xmms starts playing it all and runs the blursk visualisation plugin. will make a new version if i can get some more hardcore visualisation to run on dsl.

softgun, maybe you want to chroot into source for the apt-get, not sure tho as i haven't done this.

thank you to the dsl team

I note than on computers with a lot of hard drives and partitions, with perhaps
a few remastering projects going on, one has to give the exact location of the
iso that is to be booted:
For Knoppix:
boot: knoppix bootfrom=/dev/hdb6/yourdistro.iso
I often do that when I am trying out something, and don't want any more coasters.
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Now, for the hard question:
I note that in Knoppix 3.7, the mouse cursor has changed to one that can easily be seen on laptop screens. I am remastering 3.4, and the default cursor is too small.
I have tried installing Debian's "big-cursor", but with limited results. Most of the time, (in Firefox, for instance), I still get the default (too-tiny) cursor. I did fix up some cursors to use with "xsetroot", and have them in my menu, but again, those only show up on the desktop, not within an application. I tried moving the cursor files themselves from 3.7 into my 3.4 master, but that only resulted in a crash on bootup of X.
This question would also apply to DSL, if anyone does not like the default cursor size. In DSL 0.9.3, the cursor is just fine, really, but not quite the size of the one in Knoppix 3.7. The Knoppix distro's have KDE, which I don't boot into in my remaster, I use Icewm, and can switch to Fluxbox also, so it looks like
my remaster of Damn Small, more or less, with the same style, etc. I can switch to KDE on faster computers, and have left all the KDE files there, but have made changes for my remaster.  Mostly, I put a bunch of desktop icons for my stuff, and added my wallpaper.
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In Knoppix, the cursor files are in:
usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc, and are:
cursor.pcf.gz
olcursor.pcf.gz
In the Knoppix 3.7, the cursor.pcf.gz-artwiz replaces cursor.pcf.gz
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I have tried several combinations, first just placing cursor.pcf.gz-artwiz in
the directory mentioned above, and renaming the original. Nothing worked
I still get either the original Knoppix (too-tiny) cursor, or a crash on bootup of
X.
Perhaps the file controlling the cursor is unknown to me.
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Anyone have any thoughts on this cursor problem?
--Rapidweather