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Posted: May 14 2004,01:02

I just wanna know how to use those extensions, so whether or not I should just burn straight DSL 0.7 or run this mydsl thing and and make it's own thing, and go from there. I want to know how it works, and since I haven't found that Getting Started you were talkin' about, I'm lost.

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Posted: May 14 2004,01:37

Basically, *.dsl is the rename of *.tar.gz
you can download and rename them.
put them in the root dir and tar -zxvf *.tar.gz
or use the myDSL script to burn the additional .dsl to the iso

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Posted: May 14 2004,01:39

I would recommend that you "walk" before you "run". Download DSL v.07. It runs just like usual.

Then "try out" a simple extension, say "ace-of-penguins". Download that and store it on hard drive or pen drive. Then with v0.7 boot with new added option:
boot: dsl mydsl=hda2 for a hard drive partition 2 or for pen drive
boot: dsl mydsl=sda1

Then move on to try other extensions. Try them out first on hard drive. When you are happy with "your" DSL then you may choose to make a custom myDSL cdrom. Note you don't even "have to" burn a myDSL cdrom. You may choose to keep your favorite extenstions on the external media of hard drive or pen drive.

It is up to you. That is why it is called myDSL. Your choice of apps, your way!

John

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Posted: May 14 2004,02:11

Just for you PhrozenFear:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/getting_started.html

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Posted: May 14 2004,02:17

John,

This is an outstanding version. Love it. The only problem I have notice so far is the fact that it loads by default the 3 buttons mouse. Therefore the wheel on my usb optical mouse does not work compare to other version.

This seems to be a consequence of the dsl and firefox on the cdrom. ie i burn a copy without any add dsl and it worked as usual fine. I burn a copy with firefox and ace..everything worked but the wheel mouse.

It looks like a scripting issue.

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