How to install firefox .uci

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How to install firefox .uci
started by: jerome5

Posted by jerome5 on Sep. 03 2004,18:19

My search skills on this forum must suck because I know this must have been asked a zillion times, but since I didnt find anything that I could use I am asking here.

I dont want to redownload another 10 meg file (I am 56k), I thought that you could open the file with mydsl but that just caused a seg fault.

So a quick an easy anwser would be nice.

Thanks

Posted by roberts on Sep. 03 2004,18:41

uci files are "mounted" and not installed.

If you are running from the liveCD and then download uci with the mydsl desktop icon, the file is downloaded to ramdisk. Better to specifiy a hard drive partiton via the mydsl desktop icon so your downloads will be saved. So you don't have re-download as ramdisk is lost when power off. This is true for all extension types when running from liveCD and jusing the desktop icon and have not specified at location to save/load them from via the "add drives" at the bottom of the screen.

Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 03 2004,19:26

1. Make sure that you check the MD5SUM of the *.uci file to make sure that you did not get a corrupted download.

2. As stated on the repository page, *.uci extensions will only work with DSL version 0.8.0 or newer. You are using DSL 0.8, no?

Posted by jerome5 on Sep. 03 2004,23:01

I didnt realise that you could open them in emelfm by double clicking then :/

BTW do you have to mount them everythime you boot, cant it just install it like a regular dsl?

Posted by roberts on Sep. 03 2004,23:36

There are usually matching .dsl files if you want to load all that into ram. If you are hard drive installed, then loading a .dsl loads onto your hard drive.

If you want to automate the mounting of the uci files then you should:

1. edit /opt/bootlocal.sh and add the mount command with the appropriate drive
2. edit .xinitrc and add the mydsl-load command with the full path to the uci.

Posted by jerome5 on Sep. 04 2004,01:19

I dont know what package messed this up but now I am getting the error

/dev/cloop8: No such device

Posted by SteveAsman on Sep. 27 2004,15:06

Quote (jerome5 @ Sep. 03 2004,21:19)

I dont know what package messed this up but now I am getting the error

/dev/cloop8: No such device

I also ran into this issue with several machine I installed DSL on. The work around I used is to resart the machine, logon as root and edit:

/etc/sysconfig/mydsl

and delete all the lines and save it as an empty file. Logout and login as your regular account and you should be able to mount uci files again. It looks like this file is supposed to keep track of concurrent uci mounts so it doesn't try mount to the same cloop device twice. However the file isn't getting cleaned under all circumstances and when it gets to cloop8 mount seems to have a problem. I suppose a adding a couple lines to the shutdown script would solve this. Or perhaps there is a bug in the mydsl-load, mydsl-install on the mountci scripts.