grub and distro questions

On Sep 08/09/2005 09:38 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Lastly, has anyone used the DamnSmallLinux within windows? I am
> interested
> to see if this works off a memory stick well.

Yep in the last few days I have been playing with this as a way to be
able to ssh to my servers off my users desktops from a linux distro.
That way I don't have to install any extra programs like putty on the
users workstation. Incredibly it works very well. I also chose to stick
all the files on the root of the stick and then i used syslinux.exe to
install a boot sector to the stick. So now I can boot from the stick asa
well as run it in the emulator within windows. Changing from different
Kbd and mouse and xwindow settings when either booting from the stick or
using the emulator, isn't particularly smooth though. I have been trying
to figure out the boot scripts to see how I can get the X environment
from being loaded and instaed run the xsetup.sh script prior to xwindows
starting up. That way I can deal with the many different workstations
that i come across.

If I could use Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc in the emulator to access
virtual terminals I could just kill the xsession, but that only seems to
work when booting off the stick. Any tips with this would be much
appreciated.


	Regards, Geoff