DSL 'Persistent home' and swapp fileForum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions Topic: DSL 'Persistent home' and swapp file started by: gui Posted by gui on Aug. 10 2004,15:24
I like DSL because it starts easy so you can have a nice linux distro working in a few minutes And then you can grow-up by adding dsl applications and/or installing to HD etc etc I've found some problems with HD installation (some applications do not works at all: Mozilla-thunerbird is one of them I apt-get install,all seems to be ok and whan I want use it some library is not present...So...I prefer still using Live CD I can not broken anything lol I'm guessing if is it possible as Knoppix does to 'make a persistent' copy of /home/dsl so you are not so limited by ramdisk size and...if possible make a swapp file just Knoppix does I like DSL's filetool.list backup/restore and myDsl loading And I thinkg If you can do a persistent size variable /home/dsl should be great! And please!! include Mozilla-Thunderbird as an .dsl or better an .ci file!Tks! Posted by mpie on Aug. 10 2004,16:04
you can succesfully apt-get it from.......am unable to comfirm the place at the moment ( I will post it when i am home and have full resources) search apt what you need to do is uncomment the unstable and comment out the stable from apt-sources list add the above then apt get update them get the thunderbirs pack, I am succesfully running 0.7.3 daily with no errors.... Posted by gui on Aug. 10 2004,18:35
I did it! and I get an error! Later when I return home I'll do it again and tell you what it said mmm.......I remember some ??Xandr??? could be that name? or ???xandr??? I uncomment lines you said and edit another apt.??? and changed 'stable' for 'testing' Then I apt-ge install mozilla-thunderbird the download and installation is ok but when I wanna run it ....sais that has not the ???andr???.lib Later I send you the entire message! Posted by mikshaw on Aug. 10 2004,22:50
Is this what it wants?< libXrandr > Posted by mpie on Aug. 11 2004,11:02
OK so this is how i do it.......enable synaptic add these mirrors to the sources list deb < http://mentors.debian.net/debian > unstable main contrib non-free src-deb < http://mentors.debian.net/debian > unstable main contrib non-free uncomment unstable in sources list run apt-get update open synaptic scroll down to mozilla thunderbird they have several options including language packs select the one you want click install synaptic will pick up all dependancies the download is about 70MB in total......... takes time when all files are down it will start installing after prompting you about font managment..... I pass to deforma for simplicity good luck....... Posted by gui on Aug. 11 2004,11:54
Yes sir! it wants libXrandr Posted by gui on Aug. 11 2004,11:55
Ok, thanks I'll try today when return home Posted by gui on Aug. 11 2004,11:59
I've asked (and obtained good answers) about Thunderbird..but what about making persistent home like Knoppix does? Is that possible? The idea is how to increase user space (adding RAM is not very cheap at least in this country)
Posted by DonttPanic on Aug. 12 2004,22:05
gui: im not sure, but you could probably partition an area on the hard drive for dsl. do you have anything else running on the hd (win?) if so, you probably want to ask someone else because im not daring enough to bother with it. after you make a partition, you would be able to mount it and save any data you want. i'm guessing this is what you mean by a /home/dsl
Posted by gui on Aug. 13 2004,12:54
See: when you use Knoppix from cd (or poors man installation) you can choose to have the /home anywhere you want You tells Knoppix and it shows you all partitios (fat vfat ext etc etc) you choose one and then Knoppix ask you for size or entire partition and then makes a file knoppix.ext which is opened and use as /home when Knoppix load (with all of your stuff there) The advantage of this is you do not waste your ram disk with suff. I know I can HD-Install but I prefer to use DSL from CD or RAM or poors man installation mmmm perhaps if I can 'touch' fstab and assign some partition to /home could work...lets see I'm not very experimented..I've used it with Debian and works but here hmmmm If I can obtain any good result I'll post here Posted by gui on Aug. 13 2004,23:37
Done! (but I have to HD-Install I'd rather prefer have Thunderbird over live CD.......pity) Tnks anyway!!! |