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Posted: July 25 2004,08:00 QUOTE
What I meant was that the USB edition of Feather uses syslinux, and the CD edition uses isolinux - it's simply easier, and once you've done the initial work there's no juggling about.
The quote was cbagger01's, but good point - once you start getting special features in a remaster (in this case so many that it perhaps shouldn't be called a remaster at all), it does take longer to migrate those features to other developments. One suggestion I would make is to tie the features into dpkg a little more, making them easily distributable and upgradable, but again perhaps it makes little difference. I'll be interested to see if your 3.4 build of DSL is smaller as well - it seemed odd to me.
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Posted: July 25 2004,18:49 QUOTE
TyphoonMentat,

Ah, yes, the sweet scent of resolution. Thanks for the clarification, now I can go back to my more ordinary state of confusion. :D

I must say, having had a chance to look at both DSL and Feather recently, albeit on different computers, both distros are due plaudits and have the capability of supplying a need I have here for a browser on a base packages + apache only webserver.

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Posted: Aug. 01 2004,02:43 QUOTE
i didnt read the whole thread, so sorry if i missed something, but does the CD drive work? i have a cd drive in one of my comps that will take in a cd, spin it, flash its lights, and say it's not ready. so the cd drive could be bad, or the lense
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Posted: Aug. 02 2004,21:24 QUOTE
I, too, am having trouble getting DSL 0.7.2 to boot from the CD. It worked one time (not the first time I tried it), but I have not gotten it to work since. When I place the CD in the drive on my laptop, the boot sequence checks the drive, then there is a message 'Floppy emulation', and then the drive is skipped and GRUB loads to my default installation (Libranet).

Feather works, as does Puppy and OneBase Go, and DSL did work once on this machine, so I don't know what to try or what to think.
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Posted: Aug. 03 2004,19:18 QUOTE
Okay. . .here's a followup. DSL 0.7.2 did boot from the floppy, but it took a second try for that to work. The first try, is started to boot, I pressed F2 and entered my parameters, hit Enter, then after a few seconds it went to Grub and my existing Linux installation. The second try, I entered fewer parameters (no DMA this time, e.g.) and it worked. Still, it kind of defeats the purpose of being able to carry a distro around in your pocket if you also have to remember to bring the boot floppy along

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