Remaster problem

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: Remaster problem
started by: krazz77

Posted by krazz77 on Mar. 17 2005,09:28

Hi,
This is my first posting. I have been reading on the dsl forums alot and managed to make myself a remastered version of DSL through the excellent How-Tos. One thing i did was to totally replace the fluxbox (removed all files for fluxbox including changing .xinitrc). I am now running icewm2 windows manager. All was fine, I was able to boot using a USB drive.
Then i came across an article that says that i could simply replace the knoppix compressed in the embedded DSL to run my re-master on Qemu. I tried that, all worked fine until it startx. It failed at line 7 : .xinitrc , fluxbox not found. What seems to be the problem?

thanks

Posted by krazz77 on Mar. 18 2005,11:16

Hi,

Yeah! I think i have found a solution. by removing "-hdb qemu/harddisk" from the qemu batch file, I could boot up my remaster version, but speed was quite slow compared to the DSL embedded version.

Could anyone tell me the purpose of this statement and whether qemu/harddisk (a 58MB file) is needed? I tried to remove and it booted fine.

cheers,
Danny

Posted by roberts on Mar. 18 2005,15:35

The embedded uses hdb a virtual harddrive. On that drive is a backup. That backup has some scripts which detect if this is a qemu boot or not. If qemu it then modprobes soundblaster for the virtual machine, amoung other virtual machine specifics. You should look at the backup.tar.gz on hdb and adjust to your new specifications.

Posted by krazz77 on Mar. 24 2005,05:23

Hi,

I followed this thread on

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=4107 >

Thanks!

and created the virtual hardisk. Everything seemed to work fine except that sometimes shutdown on qemu, the host system (WinXP) hanged. Why is that so?

Anyway, I have shown my peers my remastered DSL on qemu. They are absolutely blown away on seeing the boot in Windows. They (incidentally, distribute Pen drives) want to enquire how could they distribute a remastered DSL on their pendrives for a slight premium? I being a newbie (3mths in the making..

), could not answer their questions about the licenses and legality issues .Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Cheers!