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Having set up the printer in MyDSL CUPS and exited with the backup option ticked earlier today I seem to have regressed to complete newbie status. On restarting DSL this evening (a) there's no printer listed in CUPS and (b) my root password is not recognised therein or when I "su" on a terminal.

I've noticed several other oddities not directly connected to the printer aspects. First the USB drive seems to have 2 partitions instead of the one I envisaged. Next there's no sign of filetool.lst except when I check it out in F8 and then there's hardly anything in it.

Clearly I've misunderstood several basic points but before starting over completely is there a simple answer to all this?
In order for cups printer settings to persist across reboot there are several files that need to be added to your backup - I seem to remember Roberts listed these in a post a while ago
Quote (Juanito @ Jan. 30 2008,06:32)
In order for cups printer settings to persist across reboot there are several files that need to be added to your backup - I seem to remember Roberts listed these in a post a while ago

Thanks for that. The details are in "MyDSL Extensions>>System>>cups and backup" posted 26 Jul 06.

I added the data to .filetool.lst; set the "export PRINTER=xxxxx" variable; went MyDSL>>cups>>start; and printed from Beaver after rebooting.

Problems finding .filetool.lst disappeared once I remembered the dot prefix.

As an aside I'm still not clear why F8 shows my USB pendrive as two separate devices (one containing Knoppix and the other MyDSL and the .tar) but I can live with it - in XP it's even stranger as it shows only MyDSL and the .tar.
BTW if you want to use the fax/scanner part of your all-in-one with dsl and if hplip supports your device (see their web site to check), you could try the hplip extension in testing...
Quote (jaygeedsl @ Jan. 30 2008,04:09)
As an aside I'm still not clear why F8 shows my USB pendrive as two separate devices (one containing Knoppix and the other MyDSL and the .tar) but I can live with it - in XP it's even stranger as it shows only MyDSL and the .tar.

They aren't 2 separate devices, but 1 device with 2 partitions.  The main reason is for compatibility.  This was discussed in these forums, see them for exact details on the decision.  You seem to imply there is a problem with it, but there isn't... ?  Afaik, that partition is ext2 (which by default is unreadable under windows - and the default native driver for those devices in windows only supports 1 partition) but under most cases you don't need to access that anyways.
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