USB booting :: usb troubles



Most of the system is contained inside the compressed KNOPPIX filesystem.  It is read-only, so it works on both hard drives/usb drives and also CD-R disks.

The smaller, read/write portion of the system is by default stored inside a ramdisk.  This is why you can write to it when using a livecd and you can also write to it many times without wearing out a USB flash drive.  Unfortunately, you will lose any data that is stored in the ramdisk upon power loss or shutdown of the computer.  This is why the backup/restore system was added to DSL.  The backup/restore system will save selected parts of your ramdisk into a backup archived file once upon shutdown (must be saved to a writable device like a floppy, hard drive or USB drive).  It is then automatically restored upon reboot into DSL.

Your extensions will get lost upon reboot unless you back them up or save them to a writable storage location.

The right place to save your extensions for an embedded system is the virtual harddisk.  I believe that it appears as either /mnt/hda or /mnt/hdb.

You will need to use "Emelfm as Super User" in order to copy the extension files over to this place.
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the backup.tar.gz file is in the root dir of my sda1 (usb key) but it does not seem to restore at boot.
also, my extensions are in the same usb key: must they be in the root dir as well? are they supposed to be seen and restored automatically at boot? or shall I click and "mydsl" them everytime I boot and need them?

thank you for your help
davide
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If your usbkey is plugged it at boot time, it should automatically restore.

If not, boot with:

dsl mydsl=sda1 restore=sda1

and see if it works.
thanks
it does see the .dsl files on the root dir of my usbpen, now.
But it still does not restore
not even if i try to restore when the system is running.
In the filetool list i added /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu, because I translated it into italian.
But when I boot the menu is always the default one. maybe this time because mydsl recovery script overwrites it?
(by the way thank you very much for you help, cbagger01)
:)
Drop the leading slash, and see if that helps..

home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu

If you are running DSL-1.2.1 or 1.3.1
there should be a line in your .filetool.lst that says
home/dsl/
This SHOULD backup most everything in /home/dsl,
excepting what is listed in your .xfiletool.lst

73
ke4nt
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