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ypx

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Posted: Sep. 09 2004,20:27

will the mkmydsl script take care of keyboard mapping before cheatcodes ?
if not, that would be a great improvement to think about.

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Posted: Sep. 09 2004,21:13

Actually this has been in the planning for quite awhile. I am amazed that what I am usually working on somehow always seems to be in discussion just when I am about to release it.

You will have to boot one more time with your cheatcodes to get correct keyboard in order to have a useable system to run the mkmydsl script. It is not on the menu because of its run time requirements.

For example I only have a single cdrom in my machine, it happens to be a cdwriter, so I have to boot with
dsl 2 toram
then I can run mkmydsl script.

Some have two cdroms one to boot and run from and another for cdwrite, they could possible run it from a normal mode.

Anyway, it has been tested and a version has been around since the inception of the mydsl introduction. Only new feature was to add the prompt for boot time options.

For more notes see: http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=2484

ypx

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Posted: Sep. 13 2004,12:34

time to give feedback about your method, clacker...

i'll be short, except for the -f switch in mkisofs, it works fine :
i now own a dsl cd that boot with french keyboard from the start :cool:

but i had to copy the KNOPPIX dir into newcd as mkisofs didn't seem to able to build the iso with the link.

important things to note :
- when editing isolinux.cfg remove a number of # equal to the number of char you added to keep file size constant
- the newcd dir must be created in the ramdisk or on a linux partition, not a windows one.

i'll now have to retry because it seems that the cd is closed, so i can't add dsl extension to it by using multisession (i couldn't add them to the first burn as my computer doesn't have enough memory to hold both the dsl base and the extensions in the ramdisk). i guess i'll have to change a switch in mkisofs, is that right ?

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Posted: Sep. 13 2004,14:32

sure, you could copy the KNOPPOX directory to the newcd directory, and run mkisofs without the -f switch. So you would type everything except the -f in the mkisofs command.

Did you type the entire mkisofs command on one line? My post did say that you need to type that whole third code box as one big line. This web forum wraps the long lines, so they look like two.

to copy the KNOPPIX directory use cp -Rp /cdrom/KNOPPIX newcd/KNOPPIX

ypx

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Posted: Sep. 13 2004,14:46

i did type the entire mkisofs command as a single line. and mkisofs said something like it was unable to use the KNOPPIX dir (from memory)...

however, what do i need to change to burn the iso as the first burn of a multisession cd ? is it a mkisofs switch ? a cdrecord one ? both ?

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