Release Candidates :: DSL v3.2 RC2

idea for qemu: for the virtual harddisk, place it in another zip. And/Or place some scripts to recreate them.

Although I know there are many things that make using qemu somewhat confusing to new users, the virtual harddisk was more reliable. (and you wouldn't have to set up samba, etc on the host machine)

What I am thinking of doing is to keep the original dsl-windows.bat file, which is setup for the virtual disk and possibly add the qemu-img.exe into the zip. Then have the readme contain basic virtual disk creation instructions. The virtual disk size is something the user will need to create based on size of pendrive and/or storage requirements. Still this is all basic qemu stuff and not DSL. Then, on the otherhand, I think that maybe I should only provide the bat files and readme, and not being redistributing Qemu, like the way I handle Vmplayer. Only the .vmx configuration file specific to DSL is being distributed.

FYI. The smbclient is easy to script. I have mine in qemu-save.sh.

Thanks for all your hard work Robert S. Just catching up on this topic.
If you could release a howto or detailed readme for creating our own qemu image or virtual disk that would be great and helpful. I'm trying to wrap my brain around some virtual machine stuff for work and messing with the already working DSL and its small footprint is most helpful. DSL is the only QEMU image I've gotten to work yet and it was a breeze.

For some reason I couldn't get qemu that was installed to my linux box to launch and open a dsl iso, but by copying your dsl embedded .zip to my drive, unzipping and running your precanned QEMU, DSL and everything it worked. Good to know that you used and supplied a tested QEMU config w/ DSL.

Docs and packaging of tools have been better here than many places I've been and I definitely dig the community effort. Keep it up.

One other comment. Have you and John thought of setting up an RSS feed for the released versions and RCs of DSL and DSL-N? I've just started setting up a feedreader and would like to add DSL alongside Kubuntu and Mepis.

Just so as I am clear on this - If no "mydsl=" boot option is used, 3.2 RC2 now expects to find the folders:

/mydsl/ (packages to be loaded on boot)
/mydsl/optional/ (packages to appear as optional extensions)
/mydsl/modules/ (modules to be loaded on boot)

Is this correct (it seems to work)?

If, after loading the new dsl-dpkg.unc, I do:

# apt-get update

I get the following errors:
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/main Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80]
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/main Release
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/non-free Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80]
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/non-free Release
Err http://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/contrib Packages
404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80]
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org oldstable/contrib Release
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian....ages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80]
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian....ages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80]
Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian....ages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80]
Reading Package Lists... Done
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

If I change /etc/apt/sources.list to point to stable instead of oldstable, things work without errors...

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