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Topic: Please help me out !, Total newbie just discovered DSL

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MDG

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Posted: Jan. 16 2007,03:35

Pimpes

Follow this link - see if it helps at all.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Persistence

With backup/restore - the file is saved to say hd1 as backup.tar.gz - with all your settings for desktop or whatever you add to the backup.tar.gz. (I don't know if the backup.tar.gz can be saved to hdb1/linux map - think it just looks for a main partition like hdb1, but I could be wrong).

If you are wanting to save files - like PDFs, images, music, etc., you could use a USB key, otherwise I would suggest making a Linux partition on your harddrive - I don't know how to do that though. Perhaps the link above can guide you to an answer if neither of these is what you had in mind.

Hope this helps - Good luck

MDG

dreemernj

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Posted: Jan. 16 2007,16:54

I think MDG's link has the answer.

I usually just keep a MyDSL folder on the first HD on my comps and I save stuff there. I keep extensions there that automatically install, and I save my files to that. It's not as elegant as what's referred to on the link above but it works for me

Pimpes

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Posted: Jan. 18 2007,15:15

The problem i now i have is i cant tell if it helped :P,
here check this out:

1) The first step is to create your home directory. Load up DSL as you normally would. Don't use the home boot option. Execute the following. If you want your home directory somewhere other than hda5, replace hda5 with the mount point of your device.

mount /mnt/hda5
mkdir -p /mnt/hda5/home
cp -a /home/dsl /mnt/hda5/home
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As soon as i try to make something via DSL, For example a directory
is says.. READ ONLY!!!!!!

, even tough i first off typed SUDO SU so i have more rights, and i also tried running the command "mkdir" like: SUDO MKDIR -P but also error read only!.

i already tried doing the permissions thing but didnt work cause thats also read only lol

But hey, by all your help from all of you atleast i'm getting Somewhere!, So tnx alot already