DSL on embeded box

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: DSL on embeded box
started by: JohnS

Posted by JohnS on Oct. 28 2006,21:49

I've been running DSL as my main distro for a couple years now and love it. Recently I started working on a project that will run on some specialized embeded hardware, it comes with a 70meg small distribution based on Debian which has all the right drivers for the hardware compiled in so I would like to keep it. Unfortunately this "tiny" distribution is terrible!! You can sort of make it work under console mode but its almost totally usless in X. Boy have I gotten spoiled by DSL!!!

Any way what I would like to do is keep this kernel and pretty much blow away everything else and use the DSL desktop, apps, etc. Since this kernel includes all the drivers I'm going to need compiled in I won't need the boot time "find out whats out there and configure" part of DSL. What I would like is the X environment and the apps.

This machine boots from an image file in FLASH disk similar to frugal install. I'd most likely do this on one of my other DSL machines, load this image and delete most of it and start putting DSL stuff in there instead.

Any hints as to where to find the appropriate places in DSL that I want to copy?

Thanks again to the DSL developers, I hadn't realized how really special DSL was until I had to use someone elses "small" distro.

John S.