On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Craig wrote:
> Hey Erich,
> What do you mean "You can start with what's in your syslinux.cfg and
> expand it"??? I've looked on my Dachstein CD, and I don't even see a
> syslinux.cfg file! How do I know if I have one on my CD, how do I find
> it, and how do I "look" at it? If I create this infamous lrpkg.cfg
> file...should I even care about what's in the syslinux.cfg file???
> Thanks for your help.
I may have this somewhat wrong... I have never used DCD for any real work,
but you seem to be thrashing here so I will speak out anyway. Have you
googled for any answers to your questions?
Bootable CDs incorporate a disk image that the BIOS temporarily treats as
"drive a:" for the purpose of booting. As loaded, the boot image is not
located within the visible filesystem, but if I recall correctly there is
another copy of the image in the cd filesystem that you can dd onto a
floppy disk (presuming you have appropriately formatted the disk).
You should care what is in the syslinux.cfg file, because it determines
how the system boots and the base complement of packages. If you don't
like something in the base complement, you will need to modify a boot
floppy that extracts the appropriate selections from the CD and floppy,
and optionally create a new CD with an image of that floppy instead of the
default.
You should read the README file on the CD as well. If you make a floppy
disk like this file says, I think you will be able to learn a lot about
how Dachstein in general, and thus DCD in particular, boots.
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