Release Candidates :: DSL v4.1RC3
Still need more information on partitons, filesystems, and permissions on the pendrive. But perhaps I might know what you are seeing.
1. There is a new pendrive layout for 4.x. I is to better handle very large pendrives. A small 50MB ext2 partition is made at the end of pendrive (sda2). The larger remaining porition is setup to be shared with Windows (sda1). MyDSL extensions should therefore be setup in the first larger partition (sda1). This new setup is automatic when using the new usbhdd pendrive install script provided in 4.x.
From the info you posted yours it not setup in this fashion. Perhaps it is using DSL 3.x layout. Using a single partition can cause trouble with larger drives and not be able to support multiple permissions. DSL v4.x uses less 'sudo' and as such requires proper and multiple user permissions.
2. New in 4.x, to better support the mkmydsl, is the ability to not only have your static collection of extensions on the newly created mkmydsl cd but to still allow dynamic loading of additional extensions. Of course you cannot write onto a cdrom, therefore both searching of /cdrom for a mydsl directory and searching of, unless specified otherwise, other available partitions. In your case /sda1 is mounted on /cdrom and thus it is seen twice. Normally this would be two different sets of extension collections on a mkmydsl cd. But in this case, a single partiton pendrive, it is the same device.
The solution is to partition your pendrive so that it is in compliance with 4.x specifications.
Hello again Robert!
As I said previously I'm using the embedded version of DSL. The pendrive is a Sandisk Cruzer Titanium 2GB and is formatted in FAT32 (Just one partition). The mydsl-directory has an optional-directory with some of the extensions I want to test. I just cannot understand what causes the problem. I made a remaster of RC2 and it worked well but now when I remastered the RC3 the backgrounds wouldn't change with changing styles. I've had a collection of them since the blackbox time. But the only thing that was added to the pendrive, except for the unzipped DSL-4.1RC3, was the directories just mentioned. Very puzzling indeed!
Hopefully there is a solution, have fun Robert,
meo
A single fat partition does not support multiple permissions nor address the size issue of larger pendrives. Both of these issues were discussed in the forums during development. The solution is make two partitions. I cannot change the behavior of how and what a fat style partition can support.
Hi!
Thanks for revieling this to me. Now I now what to do if I want to keep on trying out the new releases of DSL.
Keep up your fine work and have fun,
meo
Hi Robert,
I noticed something with multi-user tonight. I might have RC1 set up so I don't want to commit to this yet, but I do want to flag it just in case.
Logged in as user=john, I ran Beaver and tried to save a new file to /home/john/test.txt. It errored out citing permission problems.
I'm downloading RC3 right now and will try to recreate the scenario under virtualization as soon as possible and will report what happens. I am running with full HD Install (edit: duh, of course, otherwise there's no such thing as multi-user).
Follow-up: I just tested this scenario on RC3 and all is well. Sorry that I spoke up too quick but I really wanted to not forget.
Now I'll go upgrade my laptop with this.
PS... Robert, I really like the Fluxbox background!
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