Help with saving MyDsl Ext to usb flash DSLForum: Other Help Topics Topic: Help with saving MyDsl Ext to usb flash DSL started by: IncognitoBurrito Posted by IncognitoBurrito on Oct. 21 2005,08:21
Hey there,New to this whole Linux thing and I have a few questions already (surprise!) here's the deal. I installed DSL on my 512MB USB Flashdrive and all went well. I found the MY DSL Extension loader and began to download a whole crapload of stuff, i had also previously tinkered with the synaptic package installer in another Linux, in fact i think it was mandrake but i could be mistaken. So here comes the doosy of a problem, i turned off my computer after finding the backup/restore button and the next day, lo and behold....my files were mysteriously transparent, as in, they were no more. This makes me very sad indeed for i worked on all that for a few hours and am not looking forward to doing it all again if i turn this beast off. My question to the aether is such: What is the best, easiest and user friendly way to save all my files to the flashdrive? if there IS no easy way, then i guess i'll have to deal with it, sorry for the long shpeel but i'm also new to these forums and am not aware of any etiquette to be followed. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE R.S.V.P! Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 21 2005,14:43
mydsl extensions downloaded with the mydsl gui are saved to /tmp by default. This directory is not persistent after a reboot, so everything inside goes away. Mydsl packages also do not remain installed...you'll need to keep them somewhere where DSL can find them to install when you boot up.If you edit /opt/.mydsl_dir to say "/cdrom" or "/cdrom/optional" (if you're not running with the toram option), the packages will be saved to your drive instead of /tmp. They'll install automatically if in the root of the drive, or be added to the menu for easy installation if they're put in optional. Once you set up a location for backup/restore, whatever is listed in /home/dsl/.filetool.lst will be backed up. One possible problem is not specifying the partition correctly. If your drive is /dev/sda1, you should put "sda1". Posted by IncognitoBurrito on Oct. 23 2005,05:49
Wow, ok...Umm...after much searching i found the my_dls file and changed it to say /cdrom/optional instead of /tmp but now whenever i try to download a package, i can't find it for one, and for two, there is no such directory called /cdrom/optional. so i went ahead and created it. NOW every time i try to download a package, it tells me i have a bad checksum error and i have no idea what that means let alone how to fix it. I feel a bit discouraged, could you offer any more help?
Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 23 2005,15:25
A bad checksum generally means that the file did not download completely or that the file is corrupted. Apparently there was a problem with this happening frequently in a previous version of DSL, but i think that was back with 1.0. If you go to /cdrom/optional with emelfm, select the package, and press the "mydsl" button, does it install without errors? If so then there may still be a problem with the mydsl gui. Another possibility, are you using the 'toram' boot option? As far as I know, using this option will automatically unmount /cdrom so you can't save files to it until you mount it again. I can't think of any definite reason why you'd get a checksum error, sorry.
Posted by cbagger01 on Oct. 24 2005,03:04
If you don't have write access to a device or directory, then you may not be able to save the checksum file.This may result in a "Bad checksum error" because the checksum file is not successfully saved to disk. Try changing your location back to /tmp and then download the extensions. Then open emelfm and MANUALLY copy the *.dsl *.tar.gz or the *.uci files from your /tmp directory into a more permanent storage like your hard drive (/mnt/hdax), USB drive (/mnt/sda1), floppy drive (/mnt/auto/floppy), or boot device (/cdrom). If you use the boot device, you must boot up with the "frugal" cheatcode, ie: dsl frugal at the initial DSL boot prompt. |