Other Help Topics :: Using DSL for an LCD Picture-Frame project

(This is going to be rather mundane compared to the other posts)
I needed to transfer a picture gallery from my DSL CD (remastered) to an
XP machine, for use as images to paint. View the image in XP, draw and watercolor until it looks right. (not me, my daughter's idea)
So, I booted up the DSL CD (0.6.2) on her Dell, and tried to copy them to a folder in the XP partition. No luck. Then I used a memory stick (pen drive), and copied them to that, then rebooted into XP, and copied them (30 images) from the pen drive into the target folder in XP.
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I had one 256 MB linux-formatted pen drive, and that could not be seen by XP, so had to use a 64 MB fat-formatted pen drive. That worked fine.
Tried to reformat the 256 in XP to fat, then I could not get it to work in DSL.

M$ products cant see a ext2 or ext3 linux partition

However Linux can see and rw to fat32 and read ntfs

Thats why its best to format all pendrives and usb harddrives (those used to transfer files and whatnot) in the fat32 format

Do you have a win98se OS anywhere?

Brian
AwPhuch

I format all my pendrives as fat16 (type 6 )
Then I use the USB-ZIP option in my bios to bootup from the key.

I have placed a second partition on my 512MB key that is fat32,
but it is not used for booting DSL , only storage of extensions and mp3's

73
ke4nt

Code Sample

vi .xinitrc
comment out this line
# dillo -f /usr/share/doc/dsl/getting_started.html &>/dev/null &
>> add this
8 ~/slides.sh &
9 fluxbox
8 opens my slides.sh script containing the
feh load string
1 #! /bin/bash
2 feh -D 10 -F slideshow/*.jpg
# which launches my slideshow folder images - all .jpg files...
# - it excludes JPEG or JPG (linux is case sensitive)

Ok so I've got dsl running and it's auto logging in (by default somehow) Cool. I find this out after I send an email pleading for yoda's help.

Anyway this script doesn't appear quite right to me? What's with the numbers? I typed it in as presented and got errors on those lines.

so instead I tried Adam Franco's version

I was su when I wrote the scripts but when I try to run them I get 'permission denied'

I just want to have feh load at startup without fluxbox then be able to kill feh if needed and load fluxbox. Adam's scripts should do this I think?

I'm 99% there someone just help me with that last 1%

Man that rules...did you use DSL instead of Xandros?

Brian
AwPhuch

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