Fordi
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Posted: Dec. 16 2004,16:21 |
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The current delay in making a new release of the MyDSL maker is in remastering DSL with slightly modified scripts and bootsplash capabilities (and now that I've been given the idea, perhaps also the stripping of several more programs, making of new extensions, etc.) anyway, essentially, I'm rebuilding bite of the core, and that's going to take some time, as the debugging process is a bit arduous (make minute changes and tweaks, make KNOPPIX image, build into CD, boot with QEMU, step through startup, lather, rinse, repeat).
On the script side of things, the isolinux.cfg maker is almost complete and will be released with the new core. (since the core is no longer an official DSL release, it's fmDSL 0.9.0.1 (Fordi's MyDSL).
Oh, and here's the good part: When I'm done, the ENTIRE FILESYSTEM will be writable without being on an HD. You know, RAM warnings and all to those with low RAM. Don't try and compile KDE either.
(Essentially, the / will be the ramdisk, KNOPPIX mounted within, the CI Filesystem soft-linked to the ram filesystem, and DSL started proper. This works similarly to mkwritable. Thing is, the actual disk use for symlinks is close to nil. maybe 1k overhead per file. So I'm eating up about a meg of ram at best. On the other hand, it enables one with large gobbing amounts of ram to really scream in the installation department.)
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