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Topic: screen saver server, Finding stuff for strange project

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Posted: Jan. 03 2005,03:27

Y-ellow all and thanks cbagger for the confirmation.
I'm actually learning quite a lot from this process but I'm not really any further advanced. This stuff can be mind numming for an ADD sufferer at the best of times but DSL is definitely resiting any attempts to change it.

I realize this is probably a function of it being initially a live-CD idea but if anyone can tell me how to turn that off I'd be most grateful.

I chanced inittab so that it would boot into runlevel 3 but it still boots into 5. It seems to be ignoring absolutely everything. I've poked around at every script and file I could find that looked even remotely connected and I just go round in circles.

It doesn't appear to be a frugal install. It takes up about 112 meg on the drive. IT's actually a 220meg drive so there's 45meg of swap partition. I DID type "hdinstall" etc initially so that should be an actual hdinstall shouldn't it? Or am I just using the wrong distro for this job? After looking round DSL seems about the smallest and most complete distro that offered graphics. I'm told I can do this with raw frame buffers but it looks like even more a pain to set up that way.

Anyway, Thanks once again. Any suggestions would be grately appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Be absolutely Icebox.

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 03 2005,18:01

Any changes that are made to files that are part of a true hd install should remain permanent.

The runlevel command may not work properly if the "startx" command is included in your bootlocal.sh file or other startup scripts.

However, changes made to a frugal or livecd system will be undone after every reboot unless the file is backed up using the DSL backup/restore process and the filetool.lst configuration file.

Read up on the DSL start guide for more information.

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