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dwarf75

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Posted: Oct. 25 2005,23:56

Thanks for that.
Same here, I don't really intend to use it a lot. Just as a emergency system, that is always in my backpack.

Also, many thanks to my mate Billy (although I doubt he'll ever come across this), who helped me to get DSl on the memory stick on the first place.

As I said before, I'm a complete newbie.

Cheers

dwarf75

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,00:02

Quote (roberts @ Oct. 25 2005,19:54)

Is your apple script generic enough to be included in our 5-way which would mean we would have a 6-way script? Or at least 6 ways packed together with instructions for anyone to download.

I think we can create some instructions and stuff.

However, problem 1:
dslMike, can you change the cat command so it changes the qemu to qemu_mac as i described before hand.

problem 2:
the script depends on what people call their memory stick, so i don't think we can make a 6-way script.

I have a go at some instuctions for download. can't promise it today though.

Mike

dwarf75

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,04:12

Had a set-back!
All was good and well, until I went to y other Mac to see if the memory stick works. And it didn't!
This is the error message I got from qemu:

So, it can only run on a machine that has qemu already installed!

Any ideas how we can get around this? Do that mean qemu has to be recompiled?

In that case, does that mean that we need a uniform name for the memorystick? (I would suggest "DSL", so we know it doesn't has problems getting mounted as something else)

in addition, does naming the memory stick have an effect on the other systems (linux, windows)?

dslMike

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,14:02

dwarf75.

I was afraid of this. The answer is that qemu needs to be recompiled to find its libraries on the USB key. Unfortunately, I am not up to this task.

Regarding the naming of the USB drive. I believe this could be done as part of the 5-way script since it formats the USB drive and could assign a vfat volume name at that time.

My script to copy the dsl-linux.sh is not longer needed if built into a new 6-way script.

Cheers,
dslMike.