DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Live / Embeddedness

Update.

The live /embedded iso that I downloaded tonight is working for me with the following observations:

This Qemu build must be a little bit out of date. The arrow keys on the keyboard don't work in an Xterminal window and the network corruption bug still exists in this version.

I suggest either rebuilding with post-0.6.1 latest sources that are newer than 11/21/2004

Or you could just use the exe & dll files from the dsl-embedded-0.9.1 zipfile but this will increase the *.iso size by about 600k

I am guessing that it is possible to overburn a 50MB iso with an extra 660k on a business card CD-R disk.

Also, sound doesn't seem to work, maybe audio was not enabled at the qemu commandline?

I agree. This is amazing, and just what people in recent days have been ASKING (no wait, BEGGING, for) So...lets hope it continues... I hope after Christmas I get the chance to give it a spin =)

So let me get this straight this will give you the ability to not only have the embedded version (running windows, with dsl inside), but if reboot it will run as the "LiveCD"?

That would be too cool...talk about instant versatility..it would then double the usefullness of DSL!

You guys absolutely ROCK!

Brian
AwPhuch

It's even better than that:

Due to the autorun file inside the Live/Embedded CD disk, if you insert your DSL L/E CD in a computer running MSWindows, it will automatically start up DSL from inside a qemu window.

Just add a short readme file to explain the important stuff (CTL-ALT to exit the window, CTL-ALT-F to go fullscreen, press the ALT or TAB key after re-entering the qemu window if the keyboard is "stuck", etc) and anyone with a newer computer can experience DSL out-of-the box.

And yes, if you reboot with the CD inside the drive bay it will bootup into DSL natively like a normal livecd.

Oh, I haven't updated the iso from my latest changes, which include:
-The C program to load from autorun
-QEMU 0.6.1 - patched, stripped, statically linked and compressed
-shortened ISO filesystem (everything in isolinux rather than boot/isolinux, qemu moved inside of isolinux to save another 4k)
-consolidated f2 and f3 (saves 2048 bytes)
-index.html is there, but autorun has been modded to include the contents of the index. Reason: I'm waiting for a response (from John or Robert) as to whether I'm violating GPL by moving the authors' page to a different format.
-reduced minirt24.gz - now only 746k
-linuxrc with network and /dev/hda mounting. Discovered QEMU has naitive ro cloop support (IE: insmod cloop.o is not necessary in linuxrc, nor is the attempt to mount /dev/hda under cloop.)
-Total iso size=50.006M (ie: <6k over 50M disc. Should be good enough for overburn.)

Yes! Squooging is done!

Thing is, I'm not at home, nor do I have better-than-dial-up at the moment (I'm at my g/f's house). Thus, I shall not be updating the iso until at least monday.

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