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timmoore46 Offline

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Posted: Feb. 02 2006,23:01

The screen resolution prob was fixed by pressing F2 at the time of boot and typing 'dsl vga=normal' and setting it up for 800x600 and ps2 mouse.

I've got a 256Mb memory stick plugged into the usb2 port but I totally failed to understand how to proceed to save my setting to that drive, mount it or anything else!

An clues as to how to do that? Simple instructions only please! *LOL*

Many thanks,

Tim

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Posted: Feb. 03 2006,19:58

OK, so perhaps an easier question as that was a bit of a RTFM job!

I reckon I can mount the HD which is Fat32 and save the settings there, but how do I browse the files, in it? What's the application called.

Also the BIG one it how do I save the settings to the Hard Disc?

A url would do, for the simplist explaination of how to do it.

Sorry to be a pain,

Many thanks,

Tim

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Posted: Feb. 04 2006,05:47

The Graphical file manager is called "Emelfm". You can mount hard drives by going to the /mnt directory and then Right-Click on the partition name and choose "Mount" from the menu.

The text file manager was called "mc" (temporarily removed for DSL version 2.2RC1) and will make a return.

To manually mount a drive from the command prompt:

cat /etc/fstab

(to see your available mount points) and then:

mount /mnt/hda1

For example, if your partition is at hda1. Your files will then be available at /mnt/hda1 or for most USB drives, try /mnt/sda1
instead but when you are done be sure to unmount your drive by typing:

umount /mnt/sda1

before unplugging your drive or you could lose your data.

For USB pendrive INSTALLATIONS, your files can be saved on the USB drive at location /cdrom and is already mounted and ready to go. It will be automatically unmounted upon shutdown or reboot.

You may need to choose "Emelfm as Super User" in order to be able to write to this place.

timmoore46 Offline

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Posted: Feb. 05 2006,00:35

Many thanks for responding.

I have managed to progress to the point i can see 'hda1' my hard disc, create directories on it and save files using beaver.

BUT failed utterly to backup .filetool.1st (to hda1/dsl/) which I found in

/ramdisk/home/dsl/

I tried to use the application on the desktop called 'DSL Control Panel'

It had a nice box called 'Backup/Restore' so I tried 'Backup' and it asked for a device name. Nothing I put it seemed to satisfy it. What should I have put in? (I though all Unix devices were filenames?)