Apps :: Installing MyDSL
If your persistent directories are also on hda5, then yes they would already be mounted. If hda5 is used only for mydsl, it will be mounted only long enough to load the extension(s) and then be unmounted (unless one or more of the extensions is uci, in which case the partition cannot be umounted while the uci is mounted).
/dev/hda5 is the device and cannot be accessed that way through a file manager, so you will have to access it through the mountpoint. The lack of a mydsl directory should not be a big problem...you can create one yourself and it should work fine in DSL 2.3 & later. The thing I don't understand is that you said you put the extensions in your persistent opt but they did not persist after a reboot? I am not surprised that they didn't reinstall (you must specify a directory, such as mydsl=hda5/opt, if you don't put them in either "mydsl" or the top level of the partition), but i'm surprised that the archives are not still there.
Hmmm...I'm still not sure what to do at shutdown time when the file manager appears. Do I copy the entire contents of /ramdisk/tmp over to /cdrom? Those are the directories that show up with emelFM launches. Then of course, it asks me to save again when I shut down. Help.
I have a frugal grub install of dsl 3.0. Aside from this, so far, I'm liking DSL3. Limewire installed via MyDsl without problems.
If you copy everything you'll be copying a lot of useless garbage.
The only files that are important here are ones ending with .dsl, .tar.gz, .uci, and .unc. You can probably tell at a glance which files are extensions you want to keep, considering the filenames should be familiar.
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