myDSL Extensions (deprecated) :: MyDSL Maker



go over to the MyDSLMaker beta 0.1

It's a script that will build a MyDSL ISO for you (based on 0.8.4 and the myDSL repository as of November 18, 2004).

That is all.  If you want the source, I'll provide.

Meanwhile, leave comments on the script here!  I want feedback, bugs, improvements, everything!

The script is designed for ease of use, speed, low resource use and low memory use (although it doesn't yet quite hit the mark yet on any of these).  The hope is that every myDSL repository mirror will have one of these scripts on it!
Great Idea
Mix & match dsl.

Page works well, selections easy & download started straight away with size clearly indicated.
Won't feedback till tomorrow as I won't be awake when it arrives..............
so far so good :)
Already found a prospective bug myself.

It's currently set up to do cleanup (remove all dirs starting with dsl_) on every load of the script, causing the temp dir for mkisofs to be removed for one user when another requests an ISO.

Script has been changed to do clean up only when building mkmydsl.html, but since I'm going to be doing development, there may still be problems.

Also, note that resuming your download is impossible, as mkisofs doesn't have a "skip-bytes" type parameter.  If your download fails for any reason, you MUST start from scratch.  Attempting to resume or to use a download manager will likely give you corrupted ISOs, as you'll end up with the front bit of the ISO repeated throughout the file.
Download terminated with a corrupt knoppix dir (too small) & unbootable.
The rest of the iso appeared as intended with the packages in the right places.

Looking forward to trying tomorrow........

...............................don't stay up too late :)
I just used this and the execution (on my end anyway) was PERFECT.  This is the answer to my prayers, because I've been having issues trying to remaster--my laptop is way cranky and doesn't want to cooperate.  I have been resorting to just downloading the different MYDSL programs I wanted every time I booted (which was, as you can imagine, quite annoying).  

I tested the ISO on my work computer with QEMU and it is just the way I wanted it.  

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!  :D   You just made this girl very happy.  DSL is the only way my laptop works at all right now, as I can't afford to fix the failed HDD, and now I have it tweaked to perfection.
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