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Posted: Mar. 27 2004,06:40

Ok, I got it remastered.
Now, DSL 0.6.2 has Foxfire and wvdial included in the remaster.
Only problem is that my local settings are not included, such as my menu
in /home/damnsmall/.fluxbox/menu, and my .xinitrc.
I am posting from this remaster now, using Foxfire and wvdial.
It's not been burned as yet, I am booting from a floppy, and it finds
the /knoppix folder in /dev/hda1.
I copied the /mnt/hdb1/NewCD/KNOPPIX to /mnt/hda1 so the floppy would
locate it.
I used emelfm in X to do all of the file copy for the remastering process, which
makes it easy. I'll do another one tomorrow, and solve the local settings problem.
This remaster just comes up with the default desktop, menu and message in dillo.
I have my own message that I use, and set that in .xinitrc, and my experience with 0.6.2
has been that after a restore, from the boot prompt, my own
message, menu and wallpaper come right up after the usual xserver/mouse/resolution choices.
I am on the right track, and this remaster has 58 MB of Penguin Power.
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Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
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Screenshots:
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brycen

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Posted: Mar. 27 2004,07:34

The next frontier is installing browser plug-ins! It is not as easy as you might think. I have not solved it .

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Posted: Mar. 27 2004,15:31

I have Foxfire in my remaster, so I entered "about:plugins" in the url box and
it seems that I have this:
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Shockwave Flash

File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 6.0 r81

MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes
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I have not bothered to get some extensions yet, that might be where I will have
a problem.
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To get this remaster up and running, I cut /opt/foxfire from the filetool.lst,
and made a backup.tar.gz (now much smaller, about 750K vs 16 mb before),
and restore the local settings (menu, wallpaper, etc.) from that at the boot
prompt. I decided that remastering everything in /home/damnsmall might
not be needed, so I'll cook up a new remaster that is designed to go with a
backup.tar.gz for those items.
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More on this later. I have not burned it yet, still in the testing phase.
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Posted: Mar. 27 2004,23:59

More details on my remaster: I left everything in DSL 0.6.2, and added Firefox and wvdial.
I now have it burned to cd, and run off that.
My backup.tar.gz is only 509.38 kb, and here is the filetool.lst to go with that:
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/home/damnsmall/.fluxbox
/home/damnsmall/.xtdesktop
/home/damnsmall/.xinitrc
/home/damnsmall/.blackboxrc
/home/damnsmall/.dillo
/home/damnsmall/.links
/home/damnsmall/.sylpheed
/home/damnsmall/.phoenix
/home/damnsmall/upload
/home/damnsmall/kreon
/etc/wvdial.conf
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There is a lot of files that are already included in the remaster, that
normally would go in my /home/damnsmall/kreon directory, such as
wallpapers, and various html files, etc. Notice I have a .xinitrc. When
I restore from the boot prompt, DSL comes up with my opening message
in Dillo, with my menu, wallpaper, wvdial settings, all ready to go.
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Without the restore tarball being applied, one has to set up wvdial
using SciTE, and wvdialconf, placing the output of wvdialconf in
/etc/wvdial.conf. Then that user is ready to go onto the Internet with
Firefox. To backup, however, the default filetool.lst in /home/damnsmall
would have to be edited to include /etc/wvdial.conf.
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All in all, the backup/restore time is shortened over the default
DSL 0.6.2, and I do have the option to backup/restore to a floppy,
with the tarball being about 510 kb.
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Posted: Mar. 28 2004,15:15

About the filetool.lst shown above. If you want to use the Sylpheed mail client,
you need to have these lines in your filetool.lst and run a backup after you have set up Sylpheed.
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/home/damnsmall/.fluxbox
/home/damnsmall/.xtdesktop
/home/damnsmall/.xinitrc
/home/damnsmall/.blackboxrc
/home/damnsmall/.dillo
/home/damnsmall/.links
/home/damnsmall/.sylpheed < This has all your personal settings, etc.
/home/damnsmall/.phoenix
/home/damnsmall/Mail < This one.
/home/damnsmall/upload
/home/damnsmall/kreon
/etc/wvdial.conf
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