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lucky13

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Posted: Jan. 31 2008,18:28

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Thanks for any suggestions and help, once I know which is recommended, I will post the status based on that distro.

DSL-N hasn't been under active development -- the latest available version is a release candidate. DSL has been under active development and that development isn't forever tied to one kernel. DSL is likely/probably going to use 2.6 in the near future.

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Posted: Jan. 31 2008,18:34

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Acutally before I start, I assume FF2 / GTK2 will work with DSL4 right?

Yes, see mydsl.

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Flash 9 doesn't work properly with 2.4 kernels.

It's not listed as a requirement, plus an officially supported 2.4.x distro is denoted... ?

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Posted: Jan. 31 2008,20:55

ok, well dsl4 is installed, gtk2, and low and behold the usb port was working perfect, so I am just keeping quiet!

Lastly was firefox, which release 3 was the live / stable, downloaded r-kiosk installed, and the local flash9 worked and installed perfect.

I am getting a seg fault from time to time so I am going to test FF2, but thanks for the input.

The last thing is more an opinion. I am rolliing this small platform out to numerous machines, so what would be the easiest way. I have played with DD in the past, so I would think I could just DD the /dev/hda to an image file, then boot off the flash, and just dd that image over to the new hard drive. Thoughts or ideas better than that?

Thanks again for everything so far.

curaga

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Posted: Feb. 01 2008,07:00

Maybe auto-partitioning with fdisk and then untarring to a partition? That would work better with different-sized HD's.

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