DSL-N :: Can't backup-restore

Hi

Have downloaded DSL-N rc4 and it is awesome. It is just what I have been looking for. The only problem that I am having is that it will not restore my settings at boot-up. Have them saved to a 512mb thumb drive as a compressed file. Have used the cheat-codes at boot, but still won't restore. Installed xmms and that doesn't show up either.
Any help would be greatly welcomed.

It's not clear to me from your post if you have DSL-N installed on a USB stick or if you have DSL-N installed on some other medium and you are trying to backup/restore to/from a USB stick - if the former is the case then the following might be helpful:

I have DSL-N rc4 installed on a 1GB USB stick - I was unable to boot from the stick when it was formatted as a single FAT/FAT32 partition so I formatted it as two FAT32 partitions.

When DSL-N boots in this setup, it mounts the first (boot) partition read-only as /cdrom and thus I am unable to save my backup to this partition or save extensions to /mydsl or /mydsl/optional. I have no problem to backup/restore or read/write any files to the second partition mounted, in my case, as sda2.

J,

Thanks for the quick reply. Actually I'm running DSL-N as a live cd with the toram cheat-code. When I added xmms music player, I then shut down the system to see if I could save my changes. It asked if I wanted to save my changes and I clicked yes. At shutdown it wrote a backup file to my thumb drive. When I then rebooted, it didn't load back into the system. Then I mounted sda1 and checked it with the file manger and the file was there.
There must be something that I am missing.

Do you see any restore message for backup.tar.gz when you boot up?
If not, you can the cheatcode "restore=sda1"

...and if you put xmms in /mnt/sda1/mydsl or /mnt/sda1/mydsl/optional and use the boot code "mydsl=sda1", xmms will either load at boot or be listed in the right-click mydsl menu.

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