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Posted: Dec. 24 2005,05:56

Sorry if this has been beat to death but I need someone to explain to me in layman's terms how to save programs that I download. Thanks!

cbagger01

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Posted: Dec. 27 2005,18:37

Open emelfm and go to the /tmp directory

Copy the programs over to another location like

/mnt/hda1 (you need to mount it first by going to /mnt and right-click on hda1 and choose MOUNT from the menu)

Then after reboot, go back to that location and highlight the file and press the myDSL button in the emelfm window

desnotes

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Posted: Dec. 27 2005,22:01

In looking at the batch file for loading DSL embedded I see the following:

-hdb qemu/harddisk

which I interpret that hdb will be file 'qemu/harddisk' so I open up emelfm and go to /mnt I see hdb1. But when I try to mount it, I get the following error message:

mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

What steps should I go through to make /mnt/hdb1 formatted and mounted?

Thanks,

desNotes

PS To bring this into perspective to the above question, I would like to install Python to a directory in which it will stay after re-booting.

roberts

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Posted: Dec. 27 2005,23:48

Qemu version of DSL has a 60MB virtual hard drive.
It is already setup as the default backup/restore device.
It is hdb. It is shown in the backup/restore GUI
You may copy extensions there for later bootup.

This question has been asked many times and you can probably search for more info.

Making a larger virtual drive is more of a Qemu question than a DSL question.
If you boot natively and wish to also access the Qemu virtual hard drive
then booting with qemu option will provide a mountable harddisk
to share between Qemu and native DSL for both bakcup/restore and extensions.