save MYdsl extenstion settingsForum: DSL Embedded Topic: save MYdsl extenstion settings started by: undercontrol Posted by undercontrol on Jan. 09 2006,07:12
anyone know how to install gcc1.dsl so that it stays installed on reboot? OR how can make dsl install it on boot? Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 09 2006,14:28
Read the "Getting Started" page that appears when you start DSL. It will answer this and other common questions.
Posted by undercontrol on Jan. 09 2006,14:51
thanks for replying.. yeah the thing is the gettingstarted guide talks about the file: filetool.lst - i can't find it.... maybe its coz im using embedded dsl?
Posted by roberts on Jan. 09 2006,16:55
Embedded uses the .filetool.lst.In fact embedded has a starting default backup.tar.gz. This is because it is a virtual machine and not obvious that your real hardware is not what the virtual machine may be using. But since, it is embedded and a virtual machine, with no real access to the physical machine's drives, the backup is located on a 60MB virtual drive, called hdb within DSL Qemu/Embedded and harddisk when booting DSL natively. So the contents can be shared booting either way. So, copy gcc1.dsl to hdb for persistency. Then you could load upon demand by using the file manager or mydsl-load. Or edit windows.bat to add mydsl=hdb for auto loading. Howver, the virtual drive is only 60MB. I chose 60MB so as to fit everyting on a 128MB pendrive. It is a Qemu question to make larger or additional drives. But all of this I have written about before on these fourms. Doing these things will provide a completely nomadic pendrive environment. Although much horsepower would be needed to run such an environment. Otherwise, you would have to use Samba and persist your extensions on your Windows hard drive. Not a very nomadic approach as you are now tied to a specific machine and a Windows machine at that. DSL, can not make everything obvious, but DSL does provide a most flexible environment allowing the user the freedom to assemble most anything that they might want to use.. Posted by undercontrol on Jan. 13 2006,08:54
thanks for the replys,I ended up using this guide: < http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2005/10/26/vmware-player-windows-xp.html > to setup a dsl VM . i ran it as a live cd and i havn't tried installing it yet.. i'm pretty sure it will run way faster then your embedded one that only uses qemu... Posted by roberts on Jan. 13 2006,18:47
We have dsl-2.1b-vmx.zip which is vmware ready.Vmware and Qemu are very different. Vmware must be installed on to your windows machine. Qemu as implemented with DSL does not, and is there very nomadic. Of course you can get the accelerator but then again not nomadic and requires priv's to install software on windows. You have your choice. Wmware seems to provide better access to local physical drives. You can even install DSL to pendrive from within a Vmware/DSL session. You can get this vmware ready version < here > Posted by cmanb on Jan. 22 2006,01:40
Since you posted this question in "DSL Embedded," I'm assuming you're booting a virtual maching from a USB drive via QEMU. I was successful in auto loading a few extensions by mounting /mnt/hdb and putting the extensions in there. Then, in the windows.bat file, I append a "mydsl=hdb" cheatcode. The other extensions that I didn't autoloaded, but that I did want to have available, I saved in /cdrom, which I then added to ~/.filetool.lst |