Just add /home/dsl/.mozilla to the filetool.lst and make a backup. Your bookmarks will then be saved and restored when you boot up again. Personally I keep a backup file on my USB-drive and one on my harddisk just in case something happens.
Have fun, meoHello guys!
Just a quick note. I just made a programming remaster of the new DSL 2.4 adding gimp and k3b also and it worked nice. There doesn't seem to be a conflict between tcc and gcc.
As always have fun out there, meoHello meo et. al.,
I have been trying this for a while and have a few questions.
1) Is the procedure from post #1 in this thread [still] accurate, since 2004? Or, perhaps it has been edited in place to incorporated changes on 50 pages of subsequent discussion?
2) Once I chroot I no longer can get to the internet to apt-get, etc -- nor even ping. I even tried the "mount /proc" and "mount /dev" steps, though they disappeared in later version of the procedure that I saw somewhere around page 37.
3) I put some stuff in source/home/dsl before I created the KNOPPIX file from it. But in the resulting LiveCD that I boot up, it was not there.
4) The ISO file prior to burning was about 72 meg. I tried to use the "Install to PenDrive" tool to put it on a 128mb stick, but it ran out of space. I guess I'm missing some math somewhere
I think I sort of understand (3) and (4), but I'm really more curious about (1) and (2)
Thanks! JohnHi johncc!
The old remastering process doesn't work with the more resent versions of DSL. To make the internet connection work right off the bat I now make the whole remastering process in RAM. I have only 256 MB of RAM so I have made a swap-partition that is 2 GB. This kind of remastering takes a lot of space.If you want something in home/dsl after remastering it should go in etc/skel. Here comes the HOWTO I mainly use:
Apt-Get Ram-Remastering HOWTO for DSL Making a remaster suitable for programming
Download the following modules to home/dsl dsl-dpkg.dsl gnu-utils.dsl gcc1-with-libs.dsl
Mount the partitions needed #mount –rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
Create the directories needed #mkdir source newcd newcd/KNOPPIX
Copy necessary files to the newcd directory #cp –Rp /cdrom/boot newcd #cp –Rp /cdrom/lost+found newcd #cp –Rp /cdrom/index.html newcd
Copy the sources to the proper directory #cp –Rp /KNOPPIX/* source #cp –Rp /KNOPPIX/.bash_profile source
Go through and copy wanted things to source #cp –Rp /mnt/hda1/backgrounds source/etc/skel/.fluxbox #cp –Rp /mnt/hda1/styles/* source/usr/share/fluxbox/styles
Copy the iso-file to the partition where you have your favourite cd-burning program #cp mydsl.iso /mnt/hda1
Of course you might want to add other dsl-files the same way. I have added gimp-1.2.dsl, k3b.dsl and skype.tar.gz also and they all work as far as I can tell. I hope this answers your questions otherwise get back to this thread and I will try to help.
As always have fun, meoThanks for your reply, but if your internet connection (like mine) does NOT work after you chroot, why does your procedure include:
For me the apt-get update would not work at this point, since I have no network connectivity. I would have had to have gotten the emacs21.deb file earlier, copied it over to home/dsl with the gcc dsl stuff, and then "dpkg install emacs21...deb".
Since I wrote last, I did succeed in doing just that (with a debian distcc package).
Turns out the main problem I was having is that the "Create a Pendrive" menu tool will create the bootable flashdrive nicely from a user-specified ISO file, but it only creates a (hardcoded) 50mb partition to hold it. For my immediate purposes I just hacked the script to make a 90mb partition, and it then worked.
Now I have a compiler farm in my pocket! (distcc.samba.org)
