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Astrosynthesist
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« on: November 28, 2016, 12:42:49 AM »

I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 and one of its quirks is that in order to not hang on boot and use pcmcia you need to modify /etc/pcmcia/config.opts. This is fine; I just want to know how I can actually modify this file in the KNOPPIX filesystem in the ISO permanently. Otherwise most of what I want to do with DSL is moot.

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« Reply #1 on: November 29, 2016, 09:12:09 PM »

These remastering guides are a bit old, but might still work:
http://schooner.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Linux/RemasteringGuide
http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-ST/f-12/t-7177.html

However it seems you should be able to set DSL to restore your modified /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file  (http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/persistence.html) automatically on each boot. Then, if cardmgr is already started by the time the configuration file is replaced, put "killall -HUP cardmgr" in the /opt/bootlocal.sh file to restart it.

EDIT: I forgot about the fact the laptop actually hangs when the wrong PCMCIA command is sent. Perhaps try using the "nopcmcia" boot command and start cardmgr manually in /opt/bootlocal.sh after the right config files have loaded.
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