DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Internet only ed.



Quote (Guest @ Jan. 27 2006,07:02)
But, my problem is, i dont know how to remove software from DSL, and when i remaster it, i cant get those annoying icons away from desktop.

I have backedup the config and copied it to right dir under filename myconfig, bookmarks works well, but annoying icons are always loaded in boot.. I think they come from the original cd.

DSL-2.1b has an icon tool to selectively move or remove icons as you wish. In ANY version of DSL you can choose to boot to a desktop with, or without icons.
There is a "noicons" boot option.  Type that in at the boot prompt.

My boot up sequence is usually "dsl toram dma vga=normal desktop=fluxbox noicons mydsl=/dev/hda6/mydsl"
Icontool wont do me any good.. Because i dont want to use any media to save settings. My point is, it runs from cd OR usbdisk, starts to X and there is only couple icons Firefox and Xpdf.

Next problem is to uninstall all soft what i dont need. Maybe i just use rm, and remaster it.
I have problems with remastering thou, it does not keep desktopsettings even if i copy my /home/dsl to "source" dir before creating the cdimage.

It was a bit strange, when i used mkmydsl to remaster, i made myconfig.tar.gz and i added it to cd. When i boot to the newcd there were all bookmarks on Firefox and flash, but the desktop has ALL the icons, which i removed before myconfig.tar.gz. I really want those icons away from desktop, but not all.. so bootopt "noicons" aint good either.

And my next question is:
How can i do 2 (or more) different cd´s.. I´d want that another one reads to ramdisk in boot, and another one does not?
I do manual remaster, i wont use mkmydsl script. So i must edit lilo.conf before remastering that image, and put there all bootoptions what i want to use with that cd?

This all would be so easy with "mkmydsl" if it would have some more options. :)

If someone wants, i can put the iso to my netserver. When i get this finished.. Iso does not have any soft exept firefox and flash. :)
The myconfig.tar.gz can install new files, but it cannot make the already-existing default files disappear.

Maybe you should do something like this:

Create a new directory called:

/home/dsl/.xtdesk_min

and copy only the icons and lnk files that you want to keep from the default

/home/dsl/.xdtesk

directory.

Then make a myconfig.tar.gz of the min directory.

then add something like this to your /opt/bootlocal.sh

rm -rf /home/dsl/.xtdesk/*
mv /home/dsl/.xtdesk_min/* /home/dsl/.xtdesk/*

and then save the file and make sure that you use the DSL Backup/restore process.
If i use backup/restore it works. But i want it boot from cd without icons. So no harddisk in computer at all.. :)
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