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I just made a remaster of DSL 3.2 to add XFree86+config-file (for touchpanel support) and acpid following the instructions on page 59.

Worked on the first attempt!!

Just wanted to thank everyone who helped to keep this thread up to date - nice work *thumbs up*!

Just thought I'd add my remastering method as it's slightly different. Mine is set-up for my Digital Picture Frame. While some effort has been made to slim it down it's not neccesary. I have my pictureframe set up to be a frugal install on /hda1 with pictures on hda3

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# This part gets the partition ready and the source copied over to it.
#While this is generally error free if you screw something up don't blame me, think about what you're doing before you do it.
modprobe cloop
mkdir /mnt/cloop
mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
mount -o ro,loop=/dev/cloop /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX /mnt/cloop
mount -rw /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
mkdir /mnt/hda3/source
mkdir /mnt/hda3/newcd
mkdir /mnt/hda3/newcd/KNOPPIX
cp -aRp /cdrom/* /mnt/hda3/newcd
cp -aRp /mnt/cloop/* /mnt/hda3/source
cp -aRp /mnt/cloop/.bash_profile /mnt/hda3/source

#I've got my needed files on a USB stick
mkdir /mnt/hda3/source/frame
cp /mnt/sda1/frame/feh.dsl /mnt/hda3/frame
cp /mnt/sda1/frame/unclutter.dsl /mnt/hda3/frame
#Optional http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=23;t=16023;st=5
cp /mnt/sda1/frame/rmapps.sh /mnt/hda3/frame

# if you removed firefox delete it from bottom of this script also
nano /mnt/hda3/source/etc/init.d/mkunion

#A preconfigured scripts .xinitrc .bash_profile etc www.frontiernet.net/~pictureframe
cp /mnt/sda1/skel/* /mnt/hda3/source/etc/skel
mv /mnt/hda3/etc/skel/scripts/bootlocal.sh /mnt/hda3/source/opt
mv /mnt/hda3/etc/skel/scripts/myiwconfig.sh /mnt/hda3/source/opt

chroot /mnt/hda3/source
tar -zxvf /frame/feh.dsl –same-owner -C /
tar -zxvf /frame/unclutter.dsl –same-owner -C /

#Careful with that Axe, Eugene
rm -r /frame

exit
#Create the custom compressed image file
mkisofs –R /mnt/hda3/source | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > /mnt/hda3/newcd/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
#Create the iso-file as follows
cd /mnt/hda3
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 seems to reason that instead of /mnt/cloop/* you could use /mnt/hda1/* perhaps which I believe would give you a source of your current DSL hard-drive install?

Hi everyone,

I installed DSL on a very old laptop (133Mhz 32MBram 1.6GHz HD)
and customized it for my co-worker's daughter (she's 11).

The whole process took over a week to get just right.

Now I'd like to make some sort of restore disk, but I got no real clue how to go about it. I don't want a live disk remaster, really because the machine will barely run the original DSL live disk.

I'm hoping I can make a bootable CD (there is no floppy) that can just come up to a Yes/No question and either restore everything, or not.

Simply put, it would need to extract an archive from the CD of all the current folders, with permissions and ownership intact.

Maybe two other options would be to format hda1, and install grub. But thats it.

No live, no nada. Just those three options.

Anyone have any ideas?

I'm trying to make it as easy on the girl as possible. The total install, with all added options, software and extra backgrounds etc is 196MB. Its running good, i'm just worried that she'll do something bad to it.

The install seems very susceptible to errors created by power loss, and the laptop battery is so old its useless.

So come on guys, help turn a child onto linux and away from the evil M$!

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EDIT
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I'm checking into using PartImage's SystemRescueCD, and customizing it, but its says ram requirements are high, so if anyone has a better idea, I'm still all ears.

cybercod, I suggest for you to open up another thread, since it does not have to do with this topic.
What you probably want is "re-imaging" a harddrive ('dd' is a popular tool for this).

Ok, thanks. I apologize for posting in the wrong place, this was just the closest thing i found to what I was talking about and I didn't want to start a new thread if this was where the question belonged.

I'll search out some info on dd and post a new thread if I can't figure out what to do.

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