cgp3389
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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,16:24 |
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Yes, the laptop will display 16 and 24 bit color depth but max resolution for the panel is 800x600 so I will have to scale the pictures. I am going to make scaled copies of the original scans at a lower resolution in jpeg format instead of the original tiff in order to save space on the final CD. The laptop is a Compaq Armada 7700 (and its a 233mhz processor not a 266 like I said earlier)
As far as using a CF memory card, I don't have any large enough for this and one of the side benefits of doing it with a CD is that It will be one less laptop and cd-rom drive in my collection. I plan to leave the drive exposed in the enclosure so that I can just send the folks a new CD once in a while.
Right now I need to figure out how to get my pictures on the CD with DSL and get dsl to load without prompts of any kind. As I said, DSL didn't require any special choices during load from the ISO I got. Just pressed enter when asked to log in and selected 0 (for the 80x25 line option) when asked about video.
I've been reading the documentaion that I can find but I am not too familiar with working with isofs. I don't know where/how to make the changes I need. Last night I ftp'd the /home/dsl directory from the ram drive to another pc so i could look at the xinit and bash stuff.
If I make changes to the files and recreate /home/dsl on the root of the CD will it be used instead of the /home/dsl that is unpacked (from somewhere) in to the ram-disk? The readme file talks about backing up and restoring settings. I need to learn more about this.
I am working with DSL on the laptop that I intend to use for the project. There is no floppy to backup to. I have tried a few hard drives but for some reason I can't get DSL to see it.
I would prefer to do the remastering work on a win2k pc since they are the ones with the CD burning hardware. I use CDRWin (www.goldenhawk.com) because I am a control freak. I don't mind creating the remastered iso on a Linux pc but I have no idea what I am doing yet...
Right now I am trying to grasp exactly what is going on when the DSL cd boots. Is that 49mb Knoppix file an iso? Is that where the ram-drive gets its directory structure? Would it be possible to copy all the files from the DSL CD to a Windows based pc and make my changes and add my slides there and then recreate the iso and create a new disk using the boot-0.8.0.img from the DSL files site as boot sector image for the new bootable CD?
I know I can do this whole thing quite easily (except maybe the whole ftp or http access part ) using DOS and some freeware slide programs. But where's the fun in that!?
I think DSL is great, I am definitely going to continue to use this after my slide viewer is done.
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