Remaster with linux-2.4.30 ...

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Topic: Remaster with linux-2.4.30 ...
started by: sassi67

Posted by sassi67 on May 17 2005,07:36

Hello to everybody,
1) I need to remaster DSL 1.0.1 with kernel 2.4.30 that I compiled in a HD-install. I followed the DSL-RAM Remaster howto (by meo) . My question is: what must I do in the newcd/boot directory?
2) I have read somewhere in these forums that someone is using a kernel 2.6 with success: what must I do to make a remaster with this kernel (if I will able to compile it)?
3) Then, with the CD burned and bootable, I need to install DSL on a CF but I do NOT have a CF/IDE adapter. I think to make use of a laptop with PCMCIA, boot it with my CD and then make a frugal install. Is it possible or someone has a better idea?

Thanks in advance

Posted by sassi67 on May 17 2005,07:44

Sorry ... I put this topic in the wrong place

Posted by sassi67 on June 08 2005,10:34

I answer myself about question #3:
dsl-hdinstall/frugal install does not work using a CF in a pcmcia adapter because it isn't seen as a "primary master". So the simple way is:
buy an IDE adapter,
change hardware and bios settings so that the CF is seen as a "primary master",
start from DSL live-cd,
make a cfidsk without swap partitions (to preserve CF from writings as long as possible)
do a "dsl-hdinstall".
Works!
:laugh:

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on June 08 2005,14:52

A normal hd install will quickly destroy a CF card.

You need to use a frugal install on flash memory devices.