DSL Tips and Tricks :: SAVING what you've downloaded to usb thumb drive

Hello all. I'm trying to copy DSL packages into /cdrom so that they will run automatically on next boot but it says: read-only file system. Neither does sudo in X nor /etc/init.d/mkwriteable work. I'm booting DSL from USB Flash. I think i will make a folder somewhere else and using the backup/restore method, i will at least be able to have these files allways, and then install them. I was just wondering why this is happening?
Thank you.

If you use the standard install scripts provided by DSL then your system should be booting with an option of frugal.
This would remount your pendrive (/cdrom) with root writeable privileges.
So be sure to copy the files as user root.

Thank you for your reply. In my case though, in which i haven't got DSL Live CD, and no hd either, i don't think i can use the standard script to install DSL to usb flash via the DSL running already on my usb flash. However, indeed what you said is correct. DSL is being mounted as read-only. Therefore, i think that i can modify fstab as root and give full access, save it with backup/restore ? and in next boot, have DSL mounted with read-write-execute.

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