roberts
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Posted: July 22 2007,02:06 |
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| Quote (roberts @ July 21 2007,18:36) | | Quote (Juanito @ July 19 2007,23:02) | I tried DSL 4 for the first time today - a few notes:
1. USB boot from Cruzer Micro 1GB
2. I initially burnt a CD and ran the USB-HDD install script. I could not boot from USB - it appears that the ldlinux.sys file was not written. As I thought this might be due to the size of the USB stick (i.e. >512MB), I copied all of the files to /tmp, formatted the USB stick ext2, wrote all of the files back, renamed syslinux.cfg to extlinux.conf, ran extlinux and now the USB boot works fine.
3. The boot process loads KNOPPIX at about 12MB/s as opposed to DSL 3.4 which loads at about 6-7MB/s
4. The card manager no longer complains about my TI smart card reader
5. As per all other versions of DSL, I got a wierd looking display due to video ram problems with my Intel 855GM chip. Using xorg72.uci fixed this problem - now the display looks good @ 1024x768x24 and DSL 4 seems to handle the fonts better than DSL 3.4 (but this could be my imagination). I will need to look at building the drm and i915 modules for DSL 4.
6. Whilst I was getting the display sorted, I mounted another USB stick, copied some files and then unmounted it - this seemed to freeze the "/" icon and I could only mount another USB stick by using a terminal window. Similiarly, exit to prompt no longer worked and I was obliged to use exitcheck.sh from the terminal window.
Looks good so far  |
The lack of the ldlinux.sys is caused by the failure of the syslinux command, typically
syslinux /dev/sda1
This seems to happen more frequently on larger drives.
A work-around seems to be...
Create a .mtoolsrc file which contains mtools_skip_check=1
e.g.,
echo "mtools_skip_check=1" > .mtoolsrc
Then running the usbhdd script seems to correct the problem.
I will add the .mtoolsrc file to the next release. |
Thinking about this more, I am inclined to remove the pendrive installation scripts from core and more to a MyDSL extension.
I really don't want to allocate the space to also offer extlinux.
But if an extension is created then the user could be given the option of syslinux, or extlinux and newer versions of these programs could be more easily handled. Seems extlinux offers some advantages that should be considered.
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