jlieberman
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Posted: Aug. 18 2004,13:53 |
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Greetings -
I am new to DSL and absolutely love it! I also understand the 50Mb limit for the distribution.
I am looking for a definitive answer as to whether it is possible to combine a backup tarball with an iso image of DSL. Obviously this will not fit on 50Mb media - but I do not want to change or re-master the original DSL distribution. I want to keep the distro absolutely clean.
I have used a tool (MagicISO) to open the distro iso image and simply add the backup tarball to the root directory of the cd. Saving the iso and burning it to media results in a working "live" cd of DSL, but the boot option "dsl restore=scd0" or permutations of this command do not work.
The error seems to be that the distro only looks for the backup tarball in the /mnt or /etc/fstab locations. When I inspect the /CDROM mount point, I see the expected contents, but I would like to know how to get the distro to look at this location - or something that chains to the actual boot cdrom media for its restore option. I would much prefer *not* to change the core distro itself.
I hope this explanation is understandable. I want a way to bundle the clean DSL distro and my custom backup file on the same media.
Thanks in advance -
Joel Lieberman
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