Mydsl extensions backup

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Mydsl extensions backup
started by: hanneshoch3

Posted by hanneshoch3 on April 09 2007,13:39

Hi!
At first, ihave to say that i am form germany and that i am only 13 years old.So my english wont be good.But now my question:i have dsl installed on a usb-zib 1 gb key.when i install sth, it isnt on the key, only in /ramdisk. how is it possible to safe the tools installed with mydsl to the key?

Regards

hannes

Posted by mikshaw on April 09 2007,14:34

Please read the web page that loads automatically when the desktop is loaded. Also check the DSL wiki:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....at_Boot >
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Persistence >

Posted by hanneshoch3 on April 09 2007,15:11

sorry, but i dont find waht i`ve searched.i even dont know where and how to save thze extensions

Posted by fredvej on April 09 2007,17:10

When you boot from USB, the USB root directory is mounted as /cdrom and root can write in it. In an Xshell write
sudo mkdir /cdrom/mydsl
sudo cp /your_dsl_dir/* /cdrom/mydsl

Posted by mikshaw on April 09 2007,17:14

The first link posted above says where to save your extensions and how to get them to load automatically.

Are you having trouble with the basic file management processed in Linux? If so, please read some of this stuff:
< http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html >

Are you having trouble finding the downloaded extensions? When using the MyDSL interface (the desktop icon), the extensions are saved to /tmp by default. You will need to copy the ones you want to keep into a place where they can be found during the boot process (as stated at the first link).
The extensions will need to be saved in the format in which they were downloaded (*.dsl, *.tar.gz, *.uci, *.unc) or they will not load when you boot.

Posted by hanneshoch3 on April 09 2007,18:16

now i knowhow to save the files.i have to save /ramdisk/tmp to /mnt/sda2/tmp.But when i try this withh emelfm as su, emelfm says, that there is no space left on sda2,But i hav a 1gb usb pendrive.Sda1 is the boot partition and i guess there is 50 mb space.sda2 have 950mb.And theres a lot of space left.What shall id do?

Posted by mikshaw on April 09 2007,21:13

Are you trying to save the entire /ramdisk/tmp directory? That would be a bad idea, and pointless. All you need to save are the mydsl extensions.

My guess, though, is you are trying to copy files to /mnt/sda2 without first mounting the sda2 device. This would fill up quickly, and not actually touch sda2