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When I tried to do

mkisofs -no-pad -l -r -J -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -b boot/isolinux/isolinux.bin -c boot/isolinux/boot.cat -hide-rr-moved -o mydsl.iso newcd

it couldn't find boot/isolinux. The Find function couldn't find that directory anywhere on my hard disk.

I loaded up the CDRom and it was there, I copied it to newcd/boot and after that the routine worked.

I'm using version 3.01 with a frugal install, and maybe the frugal install didn't copy boot/isolinux? I never needed it until now.

I'm trying to customize the desktop menus but realized it's not showing anything but fluxbox menu with xterm, Restart and exit. I even re-copied /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu from outside the chroot to my source and overwrote my source a couple times and it's still not displaying the menu.

When you are in your chroot source environment and mount proc and su - dsl then launch startx, do you have the full DSL menu?

charliez, there is a directory called /etc/skel/ that contains the skeleton of the home directory. If you look at /home/dsl in the remaster it's blank. If you want to add or change things that exist in the home directory, you'll need to add or change them in the /etc/skel/ directory of the remaster, which gets loaded into /home/dsl on startup.

If you are running startx (which I had no idea was possible from a chroot, I guess you weren't in X already?), you could always copy /etc/skel/.fluxbox to /home/dsl before running startx and see if that displays the way you want it to. If you aren't starting X as root you may need to move those files into rot's home directory. Then copy it into /etc/skel afterwords.

I am able to go in and out of X (via startx) because when I boot DSL off the CDROM, I enter the option dsl 2 which boots to the command line as root.

I've copied the .fluxbox contents from a few different places and they all work fine on the initial launch when I'm in my chroot. But if I edit the menu file the entire menu structure gets wiped out when you exit and re-launch startx.

I have learned ~/.fluxbox/menu is somehow bound to ~/.fluxbox/init but this second file appears to only be updated when you use the menu item "reconfigure" ?? Does anybody know how to rewrite menu and init from the command line so your window manager retains your customizations?

Quote (johncc @ May 17 2006,21:44)

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.

I found I couldn't do Internet in chroot either. I had to put some nameserver x.x.x.x entries in source/etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf and then I was able too.

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