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Posted: May 18 2007,23:58 QUOTE

Editing isolinux.cfg should work.  Possibly you did it incorrectly?
How are you editing it and running it?
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Posted: May 19 2007,01:03 QUOTE

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How are you editing it and running it?

I put the CD-R in my XP machine, copy /boot/isolinux/isoliux.cfg to my hard drive, then add my cheat codes to end of this line:
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APPEND ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off vga=791 initrd=minirt24.gz nomce noapic quiet

Then write the file back to the CD (mulitsession burn that overwrites the old file.)  (I add myDSL extensions to the CD the same way.)

DSL boots just like normal, as if the file hasn't been changed, but I can look at it in DSL (Beaver) and verify that it does, in fact have the new cheatcodes in the APPEND line.

Am I editing the wrong line?  ???
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Posted: May 19 2007,02:30 QUOTE

Yes that should be the right line... is that under "default" bootlabel? (And that you're booting by just pressing enter?)

If so, then perhaps the old isolinux.cfg is being read (possibility due to the bootloader reading the first/original track only).
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Posted: May 19 2007,03:33 QUOTE

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Yes that should be the right line... is that under "default" bootlabel? (And that you're booting by just pressing enter?)

If so, then perhaps the old isolinux.cfg is being read (possibility due to the bootloader reading the first/original track only).

Ah...that would make sense....yes I'm editing the one under "DEFAULT linux24".

...I could probably solve this by using a CD-RW?  Because wouldn't it actually overwrite the old data, instead of just creating a new file on a later track?  I'll go pick some up and give it a try.  :)
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Posted: May 20 2007,02:24 QUOTE

Well, I suppose that depends on how you format your cd... and if it's still readable natively, etc.

I'd just recommend you to edit the .iso directly.
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