DSL Embedded :: Save MyDSL installation

I really like the DSL. I have successfully installed and configurated Sylpheed and others. I can also download new applications with MyDSL.
As said in instructions I can see a new menu MyDSL and also a desktop icon.
But I can not figure out how to save it to be there after reboot.

I have tried a couple of tips.
/optional
/home/dsl/optional

to save the downloaded tar.gz files

to use the MyDSL button after having a sign (while shutting down) that there are unsaved extensions, but nothing works. After reboot no downloaded programmes are there.

I must be stupid, but admitting that I would like to have som help with a step to step-guide.

Please.

How you save them will depend on your installation, or if you are using the live CD. You can, in most cases, copy them as root to the /cdrom directory using copy in Emelfm. You can also tell DSL where they are (if they are in the top of a particular partition) at bootup using the myDSL=hda? cheat code after the boot prompt. Or if you have a grub install, then put myDSL=hda?, (or sda? if it's a usb drive) in the second line after frugal or toram. You can also put the full path to them in the filetool.lst file but make sure to add filetool.lst also on a line in the filetool.lst file

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....ings.3F

I use the embedded version and run it from an usb-stick.

I have used MyDSL to download amsn and copied the file, -tar.gz, to /cdrom. Before reboot I have an icon and an extra menu item "MyDSL" under which I can see amsn, and after reboot I can see the file is still in /cdrom. After reading your post I added
.filetool.lst in the .filetool.lst-file and rebooted, but I still do not have the icon or the menu back. I do not need many extra applications but amsn and skype and perhaps open office would make this DSL just perfect for me.

mgdsl,

i also use embedded dsl on a usb stick, and i have
the same problem.

i dont know how to add new apps.

i especially want to add openoffice, so i can
use this dsl system for my business documents.

i posted this same problem in this forum on february 11,
but i never got any solution.

it would be extremely helpful to be able
to add some apps to the dsl embedded, but
i dont know how to do it.

kenzo

I don't know if this works with the embedded version. You may also need to add the full path to amsn-0.94.uci and tcltk-8.4.uci in the bootlocal.sh or .xinitrc so they load when you boot up. It's different with the embedded flash drive install, so you will need to search here for what others have done, or experiment for yourself. In a Frugal Hard drive install, I just need to put the extention in the top of a partition and put myDSL=hda [whatever that partition letter is] and it loads automatically at bootup.

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