mikshaw
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Posted: April 26 2006,02:04 |
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Frugal is in essence the same as a live CD....if you do nothing to change its default startup and shutdown behavior, the system will return to its original state.
In order to keep your changes, you must save those changes in a persistent location outside of the DSL filesystem. The most commom way to do this is with DSL's backup/restore feature. You must specify a partition for the backup. If you do this properly, and if you tend to shut down or reboot properly, the backup will occur automatically each time you shut down or reboot.
The backup gui is available in the "system" section of your desktop menu, and i believe it's also available through the DSL control panel. When you start the backup tool, you will be presented with a text field in which to enter the partition you desire for the backup. You must enter the partition without a path. In other words, if your target partition is /dev/hda1, you would type in hda1. Once the partition is accepted, your backup/restore is activated. You can also use this tool to make additional backups or restore from arbitrary backup files.
The backup itself is composed of files and directories listed in /home/dsl/.filetool.lst. Any string listed in /home/dsl/.xfiletool.lst, which isn't also specified explicitly in .filetool.lst, will be ignored.
If the target partition is not the same as the partition where DSL resides, or if you have multiple backups on multiple partitions, you may need to specify dsl restore=<partition> in the configuration file of your bootloader.
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