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Quote (shui @ June 25 2005,10:40)
Ok, I'm just starting to figure this all out. When you say $sudo mke2fs /dev/hda3 to format a new partition, is there any reason you can't just make the directories on an old partition?

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#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/Dokument /mnt/hda3/newcd (Docs I want on my disc)
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/optional /mnt/hda3/newcd (The “optional” directory)
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/Bootload/* /mnt/hda3/newcd (Modules I want to load at boottime)

For this part, I can just copy all of the files I want into the same place? Like .dsl files and documents all go into that one folder?

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#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds/* /mnt/hda3/source/etc/skel/.fluxbox
#cp -Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* /mnt/hda3/source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles

What should I be getting out of these folders? Will I have these folders on my windows hard drive? Can I skip this step?

Ok, how about these?
Anyone?
Because I asked someone who knows Linux better than I do, and they suggested I make the directories on an old partition rather than formatting a new one just for this.
The other parts talk about stuff I don't think I have on my hard drive. I'm wondering if I have to put it there, or I'll have it on a Linux hard drive, or what.
Hi again shui!

Well I thought I had answered your questions in my last post. I'll try to be a little more precise and explicit this time. You can't use a part of a windows partition (let's say like something C in the windows system) for reasons I mentioned in my last post. If you are going to make a bigger remaster like 200 MB or more you will need a linux partition on your harddrive and also what is called a swap partition. If your harddrive doesn't have this it will not be possible to make the remaster you want. If you have a harddrive that is big enough you can quite easily make the required partitions. So in my HOWTO I use hda3 as an example from my own setup. The part about backgrounds and styles is just what it says, different backgrounds and styles I like and want to use in DSL as I have in other distributions of linux before, like slackware etc. So it is nothing really needed. That's just what I like to have on my remaster. If something still isn't clear to you just post a question in this thread and I'll see what I can do. Depending on my circumstances it might pass a couple of days before I can answer. But if I can I will.

Have fun,
meo
Has anyone gotten a remastered D.S.L. to work as a PXE boot/Kickstart server? I am interested in setting up something that can work that way (requires a working dhcp server, tftpd and apache server to serve up the RPMs to be installed). Does anyone have ideas about how to approach this?
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