Using MkMyDsl to add my own packages

Forum: Apps
Topic: Using MkMyDsl to add my own packages
started by: phyrexicaid

Posted by phyrexicaid on June 09 2007,11:28

Hello,

I need to burn my own DSL iso with two specific packages added, namely dsl-dpkg and wine. So I booted up, placed the two dsl files in a directory:
/mnt/hdb1/dsl
and ran mkmydsl

I put the work directory as
/mnt/hdb1/dsl

and it created an iso approximately 70mb big. So I thought it worked. When I wrote the iso and booted with it, wine is not loaded?

What am I doing wrong?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on June 09 2007,18:19

What's the output of `find /cdrom/` and `cat /proc/cmdline` ? Which version of DSL are you using?

Not sure if certain types of extensions aren't autoloaded yet... but for now you can manually load the extensions.

Posted by phyrexicaid on June 09 2007,19:23

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ June 09 2007,14:19)

The script that doesn't seem to be working is DSL3.3, I get very different options when running DSL3.1 (it asks me which .dsl's I'd like autoloaded, and which extensions are optional).

I potter away and post my results tomorrow.

Posted by roberts on June 09 2007,21:56

The newer version in DSL v.3.3 is based on a successfully running frugal installation.

Test your extensions and configuration with frugal before you try to make an iso. It then becomes trivial.

Posted by phyrexicaid on June 10 2007,06:19

Quote (roberts @ June 09 2007,17:56)

The newer version in DSL v.3.3 is based on a successfully running frugal installation.

Test your extensions and configuration with frugal before you try to make an iso. It then becomes trivial.

Oh, okay, I was trying to test it while running as a live CD. I think the Wiki needs to be updated then.

Posted by roberts on June 10 2007,06:34

You can use a liveCD as long as you have a mydsl directory already setup and working by using a mydsl=hdXY option or even an autodetected mydsl directory will work. The script will then use your existing extension collection to make the iso.

It is the mydsl directory that is different and required. Not frugal, my bad.

Be sure to use a Linux directory to store your iso. Windows partitons/drive will not work.

DSL is not static and therefore the Wiki, being user contributed docs, will always be behind current releases.

Posted by phyrexicaid on June 10 2007,06:43

Quote (roberts @ June 10 2007,02:34)

Ah, I think the program was trying to tell me that, but I didn't understand. The script did say run mydsl=xxxx but I didn't know what that meant.

I found out the hard way that a pen drive with vfat didn't work, changes KNOPPIX to lowercase, and then you can't boot once you've written the ISO

Posted by Juanito on June 10 2007,08:04

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I found out the hard way that a pen drive with vfat didn't work, changes KNOPPIX to lowercase, and then you can't boot once you've written the ISO

I've been using a pen drive with ext2 and extlinux instead of syslinux for a while now - seems to work fine.