burning disk

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Topic: burning disk
started by: dbg2950

Posted by dbg2950 on Nov. 03 2005,00:15

i have downloaded the Damn Small Linux myDSL Application Extensions and it says For automatic bootup loading, copy to the / of your boot media so i go to nero select make bootable data disk
hit add ad the extensions and the 1.5 iso and hit next it then asked for a boot floppy since i dont own a linux boot floppy i used a windows one i burnd it when i put the new disk in the drive it boots a dos promt how do i burn dsl with extensions using nero?

Posted by mikshaw on Nov. 03 2005,00:29

First problem is the "make bootable data disk". Don't do this. The ISO is already bootable, and making a bootable data disk will succeed only in making a dos disk containg the ISO and your extension(s). The ISO needs to be burned as a disk image rather than a data CD, so you need to rebuild the ISO file in order to include extra files.
Fortunately, DSL includes a "mkmydsl" script that will do this for you. It should be available from the fluxbox menu under "tools".