Customize DSL

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Customize DSL
started by: lotech

Posted by lotech on April 10 2006,02:11

Hi there,

I am new to DSL, and want to install it to an USB stick for live booting, I done it with the build in script, but I want to install some of my favorite apps. as well and they are big, such as GIMP and Openoffice. Is is possible to put the whole thing in a 512M stick, and have a more Debian standard Apt-get function so that I can install and uninstall more easy, and I can upgrade the kernel when needed, but I don't see any standard desktop distro have USB stick boot install option, or I can skin out some unneeded apps. to fit it into the stick. One more question, I know there is frugal install to reduce r/w to the CF to save it's life, but how about USB stick, does the install script take care of it as well ?

Posted by doobit on April 10 2006,13:05

The standard USB installs are Frugal type installs. You don't want a Debian stype install to a USB stick because it will die pretty quickly. There are plenty of .dsl packages that will work fine on the USB stick already, including GIMP and Open Office. You just download them with wget and copy them to the available space on the USB stick. Then you can use myDSL in the panel to open them, or put mydsl=sda1 in the boot up command line to start them when you boot. No other installation is necessary.