HD Install :: frugal, backup, mydsl home dir. and presistece

Quote (roberts @ Feb. 08 2007,11:44)

A little trick I use. Basically one does indeed need to have a "list" of those base core icons that they no longer want to display.

So, to make it as transparent as possible for the user, the icontool allows the user to select which icon to no longer display but really I rename the lnk file with an additional suffix of 'hide'. Then refresh the icon display manager. .xtdesk ignores them.

With persistence these 'hide' items return and .xinitrc handles the removal of the returning base items from /etc/skel.

Just having fun.

Roberts that icon deal... super easy thanks. i'll add that to the Wiki

now I need to figure out how to start up fresh. (not use the backup,home etc.) When I edited those icons. A couple applications no longer worked.
Does a boot command exist or do I need to delete those backups & directories and start over?

mikshaw I'll change the grub entry once I have Dillo and Sylpheed working again

You can always boot up fresh with the options base and norestore

boot: dsl base norestore

that worked swimmingly until reboot.

SO
I've assume that on reboot Grub had the entries "mydsl=hda8 home=hda8".
I'm gun shy now and looking at rebuilding again. Should I proceed by turning on backup or following the "Persistence" in the wiki to make a home directory? I'll do neither until I understand why I'm shutting down with a working Dillo and Sylpheed and rebooting to a non-functional Dillo and Sylpheed

Should I use Backup or should I choose "Persistence"

Using persistence is no longer frugal. It is a hybrid, part frugal part traditional. What you do in your home, persistence, stays. I would not have mydsl and persistent home on the same partition.

Quote (roberts @ Feb. 08 2007,19:39)

Using persistence is no longer frugal. It is a hybrid, part frugal part traditional. What you do in your home, persistence, stays. I would not have mydsl and persistent home on the same partition.

Ok so I'll summarize this thread and paste together both ends of this

"persistence" is Hybrid of a frugal install and a traditional install.
{backup restore} works together with persistence.
MyDSL adds programs to the distro (Keep MyDSL on a separate partition from the home directory used for persistence.)

So for me
hda5 is a frugal install
hda8 is my backup/restore
hda8 is my home and opt directory for persistence
MyDSL apps will be on hdc1

To rebuild my frugal install and directories:
Quote Robets"You can always boot up fresh with the options base and norestore

boot: dsl base norestore"

I then went into home and opt directories of (persistence partition hda8) and deleted all folders and files. I then deleted all my backup files, then deleted the DSL files.
Start over: turned on the back up. Followed the wiki Persistent home and opt directory http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Persistence.
modified my desktop Ikons: Icontool allows for "deleting icons" must be used with backup or persistent home.

Desktop -> Icontool Remove Tab

the modified grub for me is (works):
title Rebuilding DSL fb800x600 for Dell Lattitue LM (DSL on hda5 MyDSL on hdc1) kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda5 quiet vga=788 mydsl=/hdc home=hda8 desktop=jwm nousb nofirewire noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

This works. Big Thanks!

One last question on MyDSL and grub. Is there a cmd for mydsl to restore Opera on restart. Would "mydsl-load /dev/dhc1/opera_fileName.dsl" load opera?
I know how to manually execute this as an individual user action is there any other way except the traditional install.

Thanks again.

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