New USB-pen-installation, but with old settings ??
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: New USB-pen-installation, but with old settings ??
started by: Key
Posted by Key on Mar. 18 2006,22:17
I have two USB pen drives now for DSL installations:a) 1 * 512 MB (= first installed)
b) 1 * 256 MB (= second installed)
For the 256 MB pen installation, I used the original DSL image from the live CD.
Then I booted from this freshly installed USB pen (with sda1 and sda2) and conntected the old 512 MB pen to another USB port, from which I have copied the old backup file (with settings) to this new 256 MB. Everything was ok.
BUT ........
I then decided to do a complete new installation of everything on this new 256 MB USB pen. Therefore I did a new installation again with the live CD. USB pen has been formated and also the opera application was removed (visible on first boot after installation), so I thought that no things were remaining from previous installation.
The I took this USB pen to my internet computer (booted with an old mostly write protected floppy disk) in order to get Opera850.uci from the internet, which I copied to sda2 on this new 256 MB pen.
On next start, I wondered why "xset m 5 &" was already stored in .xinitrc of this new installed 256 MB USB pen. Also the opera application had the previous settings stored on it.
Strange. Where do these settings come from? Any idea?
Is it possible that these settings were stored on the floppy disk when it was write enabled for some minutes and that these settings have then been taken over to the USB pen?
Posted by Key on April 02 2006,18:09
And again ..I have an USB-ZIP-drive with DSL 2.3 RC 2 (with changed settings).
I have a CD with DSL 2.3 final.
Now I have booted from CD and as soon as the system begans with the boot, I plugged in the USB-ZIP-drive. Then I wondered why there were the settings from the USB-ZIP-drive, altough I have booted from the CD.
OK, I wanted to do a fresh USB-ZIP-drive installation with DSL 2.3 final, therefore I used the install command from the tools menu. Result was that I have got an USB-ZIP-drive installation with DSL 2.3 final (I think so), but with the old changed DSL 2.3 RC 2 settings. How do I get the original settings from CD? I want to plug in the USB-drive as soon as possible, so that it will be recognized during boot.
I have tried to format the USB-ZIP-drive-installation in Win, but without sucess, I always get this old DSL 2.3 RC 2 settings, although I want to do a fresh installation. Why does the livecd load the settings from USB-drive (or harddrive?
)? Where are these settings stored and how can I do a fresh installation with default settings?
Posted by roberts on April 02 2006,19:29
Auto restore has long been a feature of DSL.You can boot with the norestore option and this will bypass this feature.
After you have booted up, you can always look at the DSLpanel -> Backup/Resore and you will see the device where the backup (old settings) were restored from.
Posted by Key on April 03 2006,18:05
Great! Thank you! 
Now I know how to make a quite new USB-ZIP-Drive installation with the DSL-LiveCD on a previous USB-ZIP-Drive installation. Simply with "dsl norestore" as boot-option, when booting from the DSL-LiveCD and all the standard settings are being used again from the DSL-LiveCD.
Also I have learned now, that it is not necessary to use "restore=sda2 mydsl=sda2" as boot-options-parameter at a fresh install, this is being done automatically. And I was always wondering, why there were double-entries in the syslinux.cfg file.
BUT! One thing in addition to this:
What about the language?
On installation, I have choosen "de" for german.
When I look at the syslinux.cfg, I find "lang=us AND lang=de". Then I always remove "lang=de" and manually change "lang=us" to "lang=de". What is the reason why there are two languages? Why isn't "lang=us" automatically removed from the sysconfig.cfg file, when I have choosen "de" for german language? Is it ok to change this manually?
What a pity, that there is nowhere the software version written somewhere during or after boot.
Hope this will be done with the next version ..
Thank you in advance.