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Taza

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Posted: Nov. 28 2006,15:36

I've ran across two problems thus far - one, the reboot from within DSL doesn't carry over cheatcodes - not all of them anyway. (Cheatcodes in question were at least Knoppix cheatcodes keyboard and xkeyboard - it'd complain about a missing locale way too often with lang.)

Other problem is a cheatcode that could be useful - disabling the automatic eject for the CD. My CD drive is set up upside-down, which means it's bloody annoying when DSL automatically ejects the CD and drops it to the floor - and it's a pain to put back as well.

(I know full well it might be a bit silly to have a CD drive upside-down, but for that specific computer it's required. Long story.)

EDIT: Both problems resolved. The first problem was caused by DSL moving too fast from the boot prompt for me to notice, and the second problem was resolved with noeject. Thanks.

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Posted: Nov. 28 2006,15:49

Looks like noeject is what you're looking for.

Cheatcodes aren't stored because on a basic DSL startup, it does not permanently change anything on that system. To do that, change your bootloader. (ie if you are booting directly off the isolinux cd, edit isolinux.cfg, and add your options there, reburn)

Taza

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Posted: Nov. 28 2006,16:05

noeject does look perfect for problem #2. And it also allows me to shutdown without searching for the CD. Thanks.

But the problem in #1 is that I get no chance to input cheatcodes nor does it remember the old ones - making reboot pretty much useless. Note - I'm speaking of the "Reboot" option under "Power Down" in the FluxBox menu. (Or I just missed the chance for the cheatcodes. Does the boot screen just go ahead automatically after a while?)

Thus far DSL looks like the best distro I've tried - it's fast and small, without the system requirements of Knoppix, with the customizability of Gentoo without the recompiling, and without the bloat of Ubuntu.

Only complaint other than the two above thus far is the number of consoles - but I have a feeling I can change that when making a custom CD.

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Posted: Nov. 28 2006,16:21

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But the problem in #1 is that I get no chance to input cheatcodes nor does it remember the old ones - making reboot pretty much useless. Note - I'm speaking of the "Reboot" option under "Power Down" in the FluxBox menu. (Or I just missed the chance for the cheatcodes. Does the boot screen just go ahead automatically after a while?)

You need to enter these upon boot (that's why theyre called bootcodes/cheatcodes). Editing the bootloader directly on the cd will result in permanence.

Re: # of consoles: I suppose you mean those bash terminals via chvt? You can edit /etc/inittab - a guide was posted these forums posted by mikshaw - you can tailor it to your needs. You could also search around the net on the insides on that file.

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Posted: Nov. 28 2006,17:38

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Or I just missed the chance for the cheatcodes. Does the boot screen just go ahead automatically after a while?

Yes. The bootloader times out after 3 seconds and automatically uses the defaults. You can change the CD's boot behavior by editing boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg during a "mydsl cd remaster" (mkmydsl).

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