Release Candidates :: DSL v3.1 RC3



Quote (bokaroseani @ Nov. 07 2006,06:27)
What is "fuse system"? What is the new cheat code "fuse" for?

Fuse, Filesysem in User Space. DSL provides sshfs which is a very easy alternative to NFS. sshfs requires fuse before it will function. Therefore it is desireable to have fuse ready to go upon bootup. I reguarly use sshfs from DSL machine to DSL machine. On some DSL thin clients I "mount" network drives this way.
Quote (Key @ Nov. 07 2006,10:15)
What exactly is improved for Bootfloppy installs ?
What does this mean ?

I still hope, that I will be able someday to boot from a floppy disk first and second from a write-protected USB-pen without that the system brings an error code. I think you remember my topic for this some weeks/months ago.

Due to this, I didn't do further tests/usages with DSL.

But hopefully, it will work someday.
I always check the change logs.

As I stated Poormans via Bootfloppy. This typically means only the knoppix folder resides on Windows C:\ and the standard DSL boot floppy boots up to access this folder and run DSL. Now from this environment you can perform several DSL installs. That is the improvement stated in the change log. I added this capability after a very recent thread in which several users were attempting this type of thing. Normally, I do not do much with Windows.

You can use the standard DSL boot floppy WRITE-PROTECTED and boot to the cdrom which by nature is WRITE-PROTECTED.

If you have a custom pendrive with hidden and/or proprietary partitions then DSL may not work given those non-standard setups.
The mount tool counts partitions hda1, hda10, hda2, hda3 etc. As you click through the local partitions.  It used to count hda1, hda2, .... hda10, etc. Previous versions did count numerically.
Thanks for reporting. I will be sure to pass this on.
Quote (roberts @ Nov. 07 2006,14:35)
Quote (Key @ Nov. 07 2006,10:15)

I still hope, that I will be able someday to boot from a floppy disk first and second from a write-protected USB-pen without that the system brings an error code. I think you remember my topic for this some weeks/months ago.

Due to this, I didn't do further tests/usages with DSL.

But hopefully, it will work someday.
I always check the change logs.


You can use the standard DSL boot floppy WRITE-PROTECTED and boot to the cdrom which by nature is WRITE-PROTECTED.

If you have a custom pendrive with hidden and/or proprietary partitions then DSL may not work given those non-standard setups.

Unfortunately, I can't use a CD on my old IBM Thinkpad Notebook, as the CD-Rom drive doesn't work anymore. From USB-pen, I can only boot when I use a flopy-disk before.
Furthermore, I would like to have an easy modifiable data medium that can be write protected (= write-protectable usb-pen).

I found my old topic again:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....9;st=25

The first entry on page 6 ( from humpty ) is interesting.

It seems like there is something missing for WRITE-PROTECTED usb-pens on the bootfloppy. Probably due to too less space.

It works fine when the switch is set to write-enabled.

Nevertheless, is there a possibility that there will be a reworked floppy-disk boot-image file in the future, which will work with write-protected usb-pens as well ?
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