mydsl-load not working on HDD install?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: mydsl-load not working on HDD install?
started by: icepick

Posted by icepick on Mar. 16 2008,06:58

I have a HDD install here and when I run mydsl-load with an extension, nothing happens.. no error.. just nothing.

If I do mountci <extension> I can copy the files manually.. but I wonder why mydsl-load doesnt work on the HDD install. If I run DSL from a CD on the same pc, I can do mydsl-load without a hitch.

Posted by curaga on Mar. 16 2008,10:07

.unc extensions do not work on a HD install - did you try to use that?

Posted by jpeters on Mar. 16 2008,22:25

Quote (curaga @ Mar. 16 2008,05:07)

.unc extensions do not work on a HD install - did you try to use that?

Makes you wonder why anyone would want to do a HD install in the first place.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 16 2008,23:07

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Makes you wonder why anyone would want to do a HD install in the first place.

That doesn't really make me wonder at all. UNC packages are designed to save ram when using a LiveCD/frugal system. There really isn't any benefit at all to using this package type if you have a HDD install....might as well just use *.dsl since your filesystem is on harddrive and entirely writable and persistent.

Posted by jpeters on Mar. 16 2008,23:42

Quote (mikshaw @ Mar. 16 2008,18:07)

..as long as a .dsl version exists. I haven't tried running unc2dsl yet.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 24 2008,12:27

I didn't know there was an unc2dsl
What I would do is mount the unc as uci rather than unc. You should end up with a directory in /opt that can now have its contents copied to the main filesystem.