Other Help Topics :: A few questions on various topics

i'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do...

as far as a command to find out about the hardware, when you're in DSL (or almost any unix or unix like operating system type 'dmesg' its the kernel buffer, and it'll show you all the stuff you missed when it was 'autoconfiguring devices' ;)

Quote (tronik @ Feb. 18 2005,23:12)

I was trying to figure out how to do what Caspar suggested above (earlier in this thread). I'm using ver 0.9.2 of DSL & wondered if theres a way to upgrade it to 0.9.3 w/out needing to write a new cd. (Thinks its time I just say to hell w/it & get a USB key?).

dmesg huh? will have to look & see if that shows the make & model of this laptop then. Ultimately my goal is to find out if I can flash the cdroms firmware on it, but to do that I need its make & model first really. All I found so far is its a Panasonic Toughbook CF-71. I looked up the CF-71 models and Panasonic lists them but they all have another set of letters or #'s after the 71 whereas so far, on the lappy itself I've found no other model info.

Anyway, ty for replying.

I'll try dmesg & let youknow.

aveline

Quote (aveline @ Feb. 18 2005,23:10)

Quote (Caspar_s @ Feb. 18 2005,16:16)

open the iso and copy the knoppix file to your harddrive in /knoppix (I don't know what other files are needed, so I just add the entire cd contents - it's only 50mb after all.)
Then at the boot: prompt put in "dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1"

I'm not certain how to do this, copying over the entire cd um an using the iso...etc... would you kindly write out instructions or point me in the right direction to find them myself? The laptop in question has only linux installs on it.

Ahhh, linux... from searching on google I found this - it looks familiar, so it should work.

mount dsl.iso /cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop

(/cdrom or wherever you want to mount the new version temporarily)

Then you can go over to the /cdrom/knoppix directory and copy the knoppix file to /knoppix on your linux system.

Hmm, so if you are running linux already, why are you looking at DSL? (most others, like me, seem to be coming from windows... wanting to get into linux without massive changes to their windows systems)

Cya

I'm playing w/DSL because its small & fits on this laptop just fine. Being an older laptop, I can't run most newer distros easily. *shrugs* Plus DSL does what I want it to do w/out alot of overhead or useless programs taking up space. I still don't quite understand how to do a remaster or use the dsl extensions but when I do I'll probably create a custom dsl cd to use on that laptop *either thru a hdd install or some variant of that*.

I also picked up a distro called Hikarunix, to learn the game of Go, which has based his distro on DSL. Its fun, small & useful. I may eventually run DSL on my desktop comp just because its so small & useful as well as because I'm sick of Mandrake, not sure I like Fedora yet & most other big name distros just do not suit my purposes.

Aveline

original here.