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Posted: Jan. 09 2006,21:06 QUOTE
Hello,

I recently perfomed a frugall installation and am enjoying exploring DSL.  However, my monitor, keyborad and mouse settings always need to be confiqured before boot.  I read something about an opt/boot file that I need to save this info in, but I don't have a full understanding.  

Also, if I try to save or change my desktop, eg the wallpaper, it will go back to defaults on the next boot.  I am wondering if I installed correctly or maybe the problem is that I need to switch to the DSl partition, instead of ram like the live cd would use. I am new to linux as you can tell.  Any help is appreciated.  Thank you! :-)

Dan
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Posted: Jan. 09 2006,21:18 QUOTE
All you need to do is specify a backup location other than /tmp using the backup/restore button in the DSL control panel.

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Posted: Jan. 09 2006,21:32 QUOTE
Read the getting started doc at DSL boot. It will give you information about how to backup and save your settings.

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Posted: Jan. 10 2006,19:41 QUOTE
Thank you to those who responded to me yesturday.  I have my laptop saving now, but I am still having trouble researching how to automatically set my monitor to 800x600 at the boot. I am still being prompted for this?  Any thoughts? Thank you.
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Posted: Jan. 10 2006,20:01 QUOTE
That information should be in your boot loader's second boot line. If you are using grub then that is found in /boot/grub/menu.lst

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