DSL Embedded :: save MYdsl extenstion settings

anyone know how to install gcc1.dsl so that it stays installed on reboot?

OR

how can make dsl install it on boot?

Read the "Getting Started" page that appears when you start DSL. It will answer this and other common questions.

thanks for replying.. yeah the thing is the gettingstarted guide talks about the file: filetool.lst - i can't find it.... maybe its coz im using embedded dsl?

Embedded uses the .filetool.lst.
In fact embedded has a starting default backup.tar.gz.
This is because it is a virtual machine and not obvious that your real hardware is not what the virtual machine may be using.

But since, it is embedded and a virtual machine, with no real access to the physical machine's drives, the backup is located on a 60MB virtual drive, called hdb within DSL Qemu/Embedded and harddisk when booting DSL natively. So the contents can be shared booting either way.

So, copy gcc1.dsl to hdb for persistency. Then you could load upon demand by using the file manager or mydsl-load. Or edit windows.bat to add mydsl=hdb for auto loading. Howver, the virtual drive is only 60MB. I chose 60MB so as to fit everyting on a 128MB pendrive.

It is a Qemu question to make larger or additional drives.
But all of this I have written about before on these fourms.

Doing these things will provide a completely nomadic pendrive environment. Although much horsepower would be needed to run such an environment.

Otherwise, you would have to use Samba and persist your extensions on your Windows hard drive. Not a very nomadic approach as you are now tied to a specific machine and a Windows machine at that.

DSL, can not make everything obvious, but DSL does provide a most flexible environment allowing the user the freedom to assemble most anything that they might want to use..

thanks for the replys,

I ended up using this guide: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html

to setup a dsl VM .
i ran it as a live cd and i havn't tried installing it yet.. i'm pretty sure it will run way faster then your embedded one that only uses qemu...

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