mydsl and amsn

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: mydsl and amsn
started by: colonel_panic

Posted by colonel_panic on July 30 2006,04:39

I am looking to use DSL 3.0.1 Embedded as a portable environment for web browsing at school. All I need is amsn through the MyDSL, but I can't figure out how to get the extensions to install at boot up. IIRC, it's just a matter of saving them to the right directory, but I can't find/remember which directory it is.

BTW, been outta the DSL loop for a while, since 2.3, and I gotta say, things are looking better and better!

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 30 2006,10:58

see < http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/mydsl/ >

afaik in newer releases you may also use /mydsl

Posted by colonel_panic on July 30 2006,14:15

Ok, thanks, I've tried putting them in /, but in embedded, there's only about 2.3 megs left. I'll have to try /mydsl. Only problem that I can think of there is that it is still in hda, which, like I said, is only 3 megs in DSL Embedded.

I'm also kinda confused as to which partition that Embedded boots from...

Posted by colonel_panic on July 30 2006,14:18

Ok, just tried /mydsl. There's no room...

I guess what I need to know now is from where Embedded boots from.

Posted by colonel_panic on July 30 2006,23:56

Ok, I think I finally got it. I have begun saving my extensions in hdb, and in the .bat file I added the option mydsl=hdb to the list of boot options. Works great now.

Posted by roberts on July 30 2006,23:58

See my other post if you need a second virtual drive and to keep the backup separate from the downloaded extensions.

Posted by colonel_panic on July 31 2006,00:02

Ok, I'll take a look at that sometime. Although, at the moment, I think the standard setup is good for right now. For eveything else, theres VMWare Player :laugh: