Rapidweather
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Posted: Dec. 23 2004,01:57 |
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I've had some strange combinations that won't boot. Right now, I am running
DSL 0.6.2 (remastered) on a 200 mmx, and if I try and run Knoppix 3.4 (remastered, again) my CDROM drive soon becomes unusable, and the motherboard skips over it and boots from the HDD. The next day, after a
24 hour wait, I can again boot DSL 0.6.2. Some of this has to do with an odd
HDD that _will_not_ allow Windows or DOS to be installed on it, only SuSE 6.3.
So, I have to use a small /dev/hda of about 500 MB, with MSDOS on it, to boot
SuSE via loadlin, on the /dev/hdb HDD.
I obtained the odd drive from a computer repair shop that could not get it to work
with Windows either, so they let me have it for a song. It' a 2 GB Caviar, and apparently they get that way. But, that can cause other problems, especially with an old motherboard.
I kept thinking my CDROM drive has gone out, but the next day it always comes back to life! (For DSL only).
The Knoppix cheatcodes come in handy sometimes, I have a Toshiba 4015CDS that would not boot Knoppix 3.4 without the "acpi=off" cheatcode. Now, everything is OK.
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I do recommend the Knoppix Hacks O'Reilly book, by Kyle Rankin.
They really show you all the tricks to remastering, and have kept me busy doing that lately. After 33 (count 'em) Beta builds, I have remastered Knoppix 3.4 to use Icewm, and it runs very nice, but is a whopping 680MB .iso, so at that size, it ought to be nice. The Knoppix Hacks book shows you how to chroot your remastering partition, and Apt-Get the thing all you want. That's strange, your remastering partition is handled in a root rxvt, and you can also work via the internet using your live CD system, to look up applications on Debian sites to either drop from the distro, or add. Then next time you cook up your remaster, all the changes are used. It is possible to use Emelfm to copy some of these items over to your live CD running system, and give them a test. I use a couple of extra partitions to do some of the work, and can crank out logo.16's for the remaster using Redhat 9.
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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html
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