USB booting :: keeping things installed

Right. That makes sense now. This is actually the first distro of Linux I've ever used, so I don't know much about the filesystem. But I'll try it. Thanks.

Well, I did that, and GAIM and GTK do indeed install. But in order for GAIM to work, I have to manually install GTK again, then use the update option in the desktop menu. So, even though it appears to install, is there something I can do to keep in auto updated? The only reason I'm worried is that when I get around to setting up Alsa, I want to make sure everything is going to stay installed and configured.

I haven't used gtk2 in DSL, but i think you can probably run the necessary command(s) from /opt/bootlocal.sh (you might need to add this file to .filetool.lst).
Check out what the menu command is to update the system to use gtk2 and put that command in bootlocal.sh. If you need to install the myDSL files in a particular order you could rename them, since they load in alphabetical order.

Sorry to be a nuisance, but I still have another question. Is it possible to install DSL to a USB key along the same format that you would install it to a HD, so that when I have to configure something more complex, I can be dead sure it will stay installed?

I'm in the same boat. I want to use a 1GB stick as a Solid State Linux Hard drive/filesystem and then use Synaptic, etc, to grab slightly more disk space hungry stuff like GNU Emacs, GCC, Python, and Gimp. I just want the USB key to behave like a hard disk and have everything on the file system be persistent without worrying about where Synaptic or "make install" or whatever puts stuff.

Is there a way to do this using the backup/restore file list using a USB key that's been prepared the easy "linux Noob" way of burning the CD, doing Apps->Tools>USB Install?

Add the root to the file list or something?

Sorry... still confused. I'm an experienced Unix user but system administration is a new topic more or less.

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