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roberts

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Posted: May 15 2004,23:10

Rouge_Streak, You got it. Your idea is implemeneted.

charpie

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Posted: May 16 2004,03:58

more testing

Now using my laptop and a ps2 mouse, I copy firefox and ace on the cdrom and everything works great.

No problemo, the only problem I have is when I use a computer with a usb mouse, the boot up does not give me the choice and therefore my mouse does not work completely ie no wheel.

So I suggest that you leave as a minimum the choice for the mouse type.

I would like to know more about how the mydsl works ie: what is the process, can we make dsl file easily?

ciao

l0st

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Posted: May 16 2004,06:22

Woah- This is totally amazing!
Abiword and Firefox loaded from hard disk, this is sooo wicked

One question though:
Can I add in my customisations into the firefox.dsl file without breaking anything?
It'll be wicked cool if I could stick my bookmarks in there.

PS: Might be asking too much, but can Firefox extensions be manually added too? Or do i have to download them everytime

roberts

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Posted: May 16 2004,13:35

10st, The bookmarks are in the .phoenix directory. Since the bookmarks change, you probably should leave them in your regular backup, i.e. filetool.lst. One of the points in creating this system was to separate out those parts that do not change and be able to add them to the cdrom. Of course you don't have to use the cdrom. But please don't download eveytime you boot the liveCD. Download these and save them on hard drive, or pen drive, or optionally make your myDSL cd.

Since firefox.tar.gz is just a group of files, you could add the /home/damnsmall/.phoenix to it. But then you would have to be re-creating the whole firefox.tar.gz eveytime you added a bookmark.

All of the tar.gz and .dsl have no code in them. They are just a grouping of files and directories tar'ed and gzip'ed. The only way to break things is if the file permissions are wrong.

The choice is yours.

Teobromina Offline

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Posted: May 16 2004,19:36

I was very happy two days ago with the new extensions: Iso image and all the extensions .dsl on its root directory of the cdrom were running well in a modern computer.

Then I decided to produce a smaller disk with only the ISO image of the 0.7 and the Firefox tar.gz in its root directory, avoiding heavy apps. like OOo (because the full implemented option stopped my old p166 with 64 Mb ram and I wanted to have in the memory just the only necessary programs for downloading files from internet).

Since then i have not been able to produce a CD that works, because at boot allways says something like that does not have permisions on a file related to the xsetup, and does not launch the X.

I have come back to the poor simple 0.7 without extensions.

Now I have readen about to put the extensions in the hd. i am goin to try it. But perhaps there is a solution (that works) to carry on in the CDrom just the extensions you need.

*/Teobromina/*

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