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Topic: DSL 0.8.0 issues

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John

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,06:57

RoGuE_StreaK, did the default settings work for you in 0.7.3? Have you tried to manually set it?
boot: dsl xsetup

John

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,07:03

Also check the md5sum of the CD itself.
<script name=rawread>
#!/bin/sh
device=$1

blocksize=`isoinfo -d -i $device | grep "^Logical block size is:" | cut -d " " - f 5`
if test "$blocksize" = ""; then
echo catdevice FATAL ERROR: Blank blocksize >&2
exit
fi

blockcount=`isoinfo -d -i $device | grep "^Volume size is:" | cut -d " " -f 4`
if test "$blockcount" = ""; then
echo catdevice FATAL ERROR: Blank blockcount >&2
exit
fi

command="dd if=$device bs=$blocksize count=$blockcount conv=notrunc,noerror"
echo "$command" >&2
$command

</script>

Run it like:
rawread /dev/cdrom | md5sum

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,07:51

John, just tried dsl xsetup, none of the settings worked, not even 640x480x4
The default settings worked under .7.3, though on my 15" I'd prefer to use 800x600 rather than 1024x768

How would I go about checking the CD? I assume boot with a previous DSL, make the script (just a textfile named rawread.sh? Any permissions etc?), replace the CD with the new DSL one, and run the script as described? Does it then generate the md5 for the CD, which I check against the iso one I downloaded? I'm not too knowledgeable about the script stuff...

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Delta-9

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,14:30

ke4nt1 -
Thanks for the reply and explanation! I kept seeing references to .uci but found no explanation.

That's basically what I thought, the message is fairly specific & verbose. Really bad news for me, though. With only a winmodem, I have no net access from DSL. When will they show up in the repository?

Disappointing too, I thought extensions would carry forward to new versions. Since OO is larger than DSL itself, I probably won't bother. Maybe I'll rollback and look at 0.7.3 (which I missed). Thanks again!

ke4nt1

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Posted: Aug. 29 2004,16:43

There are several ways to get them without having local "net access"

The normal location for repository files is...
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub....ex.html

Change this to ...
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub....ex.html

You can download, burn , and take these to your DSL install from anywhere.

There is not a direct link yet from the main repository page..

73
ke4nt

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