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^thehatsrule^:

I don't even know what a .unc version is - I'm that new to Linux.

Meo:

You also mentioned a USB pen drive. That's not an option. Assuming I can figure out how to set this up, eventually the CD will be used to start classroom computers.

This is a small county run high school for kids that have been asked to leave pretty much every other school in the county. Taking pen drives into that classroom only means I would be replacing a lot of pen drives.

Once I get the ICACLient to run reliably on the remaster my next challenge will be:

Figuring out how to add a restricted user.
Setting up the restricted user's desk to to allow it to run only the ICACLient.
Setting up the ICAClient connection settings to our server farm on that desktop.
Figuring out how to make sure the connection settings and desktop settings persist through the remaster.
And finally setting the remaster up so it boots into that restricted user's desktop.

I can then pull all the hard drives out of those 20-30 old Dells and just make sure the teachers always have a sufficient supply of CD's.

Thanks a bunch, and I apologize in advance for all the other dumb questions you will get as I work through this.

Meo:

I added the mydsl directory to the newcd directory on my next remaster. I copied gnu-utils.dsl into it it. For good measure I also put dsl-dpkg.dsl into it.

The mydsl directory made it to the new remaster. and the files are there. Is the drectory name case sensitive?

The problem was not resolved.

I'm beginning to think it is less a gnu-utils.dsl issue than an APT issue.

On the new remaster the ICACLient (/usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr) will start and I can setup a connection. The client will not connect to the application, however. You hit the start button and nothing happens.

If I then right click the desktop, select APPS, TOOLS and Enable Apt, I see the dpkg packages being retrieved - or what ever that is.

I then open a command window as superuser and issue these two commands:

apt-get update
apt-get install cpio libawx6

Those two items get installed, and the client then works.

For some reason the remaster is not Enabling Apt.

Is there a way to put those three commands (Enable Apt, apt-get update, and apt-get install cpio libxaw6) into a script that runs automatically when the remastered CD boots?

Or, am I missing something else?

A second issue is how to make any changes to the desktop (Ikons added or deleted) persist to the remaster?

Thanks

Hi again SCOEIT!

I think you should try another way of remastering. Namely the one explained on page 62. To boot without icons just add the following at the boot prompt: dsl noicons and thats it. I don't have time to explain more right now but I'll get back to you later on.

Have fun remastering SCOEIT,
meo

Meo:

I looked at the How to on Page 62, and don't really understand how that would preserve the ICAClient install to the remaster.

However, I'll be patient and wait for more details when you have time - I appreciate that you are willing to help at all.

As for the ikons - its not that I want to start without icons - its that I added an icon to the ICAClient, and it does not persist to the remaster.

I've been searching the forum and have some ideas about how I will test that.

Thanks,

Meo:

I've continued to work on this, and have had a little success - which I'll detail below. In the process I have figured out how to keep my desktop icons persistent through a reboot and a couple of other things. I'm still having issues with apt-get. I just posted this in the "Apt-get" forum:

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I'm new to Linux, and struggling.

I need to run /usr/lib/ICAClient/wfcmgr after boot from a remastered CD

To do this after reboot I have to Enable Apt.

I'm doing this automatically by putting 'sudo dkpg-restore' in the .xinitrc file

I also have to run these two commands from a shell:
'apt-get update'
'apt-get install cpio libxaw6'

I've tried to get these two commands to run automatically on reboot by putting them in the .xinitrc as well, without effect.

How can I get these commands to run automatically after reboot?

Thanks,

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

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