mydsl directory questions

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: mydsl directory questions
started by: Amish

Posted by Amish on April 13 2007,15:23

I am installing DSL on a machine so my mother-in-law can have a first computer for web surfing, email, and word processing.

Some general specs:
Gateway 350mHz CPU w/ 184MB RAM 6GB

Current Partitions (I manually formatted the swap on hda2 and hda3 using instructions found on the web):
hda 1 - bootable - Linux - Type 83 - Primary - Beginning - 57MB
hda 2 - - Linux Swap - Type 82 - Primary - End - 384MB
hda 3 - - Linux - Type 83 - 6000MB

I ran frugal install using grub with no problems. Now for my questions:

1) Now I would like to create the mydsl directory on hda3 to store my extensions, but I am not sure how to do this using emelfm. I think I should double-click /mnt, then click /hda3, then click the "MKDIR" button and type mydsl. Is this correct?

2) Once the mydsl directory is created I would like to upgrade to GNU utilities and GTK2 using the mydsl downloader panel (not sure what it is called). When I click download for an extension or library it will suggest downloading to /tmp; obviously I want the extensions to be placed in the mydsl directory on hda3. I think I should type "/mnt/hda3/mydsl" Is that correct?

3) Finally, I understand the GTK2 stuff should be placed in a folder within the mydsl directory. Using emelfm should I go to /mnt/hda3/mydsl and then click MKDIR? Once I am there is the folder supposed to be named "optional" or "opt"? Do I place all of the initial GTK2 files in the optional folder or just the GTK2 extensions?

I really appreciate the wiki and the forums, and I would be willing to write this process up on the wiki for absolute beginners if I am able to pull this off.

Thanks,
Rob

Posted by roberts on April 13 2007,22:31

You will want to right-click on the Emelfm icon to access the file manger as super user. Then mount and create the mydsl directory on /mnt/hda3

When you download change /tmp to /mnt/hda3/mydsl

Then upon reboot your extensions will be ready to go.

You do not need a separate gtk2 directory.

The optional directory when created under mydsl, e.g. /mnt/hda3/mydsl/optional is a place to store infreqently used extensions that you would optionally load later via an optional menu section that is created during boot.

Until ibiblio comes back online, you will have to find and use a mirror. See DSLpanel Select Mirror option.

Posted by Amish on April 16 2007,16:08

Thanks Roberts for the tips. The system is now working perfectly with the mydsl extensions available at startup.

I would like to clarify one thing Roberts said in passing for newbies. He stated "Then mount and create the mydsl directory on /mnt/hda3". The phrase "then mount" tripped me up initially because I clicked "mount" within emelfm when hda3 was selected, but nothing happened. To get it working here is what I did:

1) I exited emelfm and went to the little mounting tool in the lower right hand corner (what is the proper name for this tool?).
2) I repeatedly clicked the "fd0" button until it showed hda3.
3) I clicked the pink "unmounted" button below so it turned green and said "mounted".
4) Once that was taken care of, I was able to go back to emelfm as superuser and complete the remaining tasks recommended by Robert.

The mounting technique that I mentioned above had to be done on other sessions before I could download other mydsl extensions.

Thanks again,
Rob

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on April 16 2007,16:18

1) I call it the mount tool (the new flua version - mount.lua , as opposed to the old mount.app dockapp)

I think the mount button in emelfm is supposed to work as well, perhaps there was a bug/problem?