I am having what appears to be the same difficulty.
I am following the instructions per 8.b "Remastering DSL" from the documentation.
when I "#cp -Rp /cdrom/boot newcd", I am told "cp: cannot stat '/cdrom/boot': No such file or directory"
I do see lost+found and index.htm (and KNOPPIX) on the CD ROM but not boot. The CD is the same CD I booted with.Solved my problem above. When I burned DSL 1.1 the new CD had the boot directory. I did notice that the version of 1.0.1 that I burned was the dsl-1.0.1-syslinux.iso. I did not use the syslinux version this time; I am guessing that is why /boot was there this time.Cyberian!
The autorun-files are not a part of DSL anymore. So that part is obsolete. But "index.html" is still there.