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Posted: Feb. 18 2007,10:50 QUOTE

Well I've been looking for information and extensions without successful. I have some problems:
1.- I dont find how to mount a drive (like dvd, cd, etc.). It's very traumatic.
2.- When i use xmms, don't play music nor dvd movies nor anything, perhaps because 1.-
3.- I need some extensions like abiword, gnumeric, gxine, etc but i do not find them and i haven't got internet in my pc with dsl installed.

I've proved with grafpup linux and it has a graphical tool to mount drives.  Would not be nicely a similar graphical tool in DLS?

Thank you
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Posted: Feb. 18 2007,14:45 QUOTE

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Well I've been looking for information and extensions without successful. I have some problems:
1.- I dont find how to mount a drive (like dvd, cd, etc.). It's very traumatic.


Use the mount tool that's docked in the bottom right hand corner. Click through the devices (cdrom, floppy, hard drive partitions, USB partitions, etc.) until you find the one you want. Red is unmounted, green is mounted. You can click the color to mount and unmount your devices.

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2.- When i use xmms, don't play music nor dvd movies nor anything, perhaps because 1.-


What kind of music? Music CDs aren't mounted, but CDs with data (including mp3s) are. Do you have the right codecs for the filetypes you want to play?

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3.- I need some extensions like abiword, gnumeric, gxine, etc but i do not find them and i haven't got internet in my pc with dsl installed.

Use the menu, go to network, find the mydsl browser. This will let you download and install those files from the repository. Or go to google and find a mirror for "mydsl repository" and then download the files you want and use the command "mydsl-install [filename]" (assuming you're in the same directory where the files are downloaded or moved).

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I've proved with grafpup linux and it has a graphical tool to mount drives.  Would not be nicely a similar graphical tool in DLS?

There is one and it's right there on your screen.


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Posted: Feb. 18 2007,16:15 QUOTE

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... and use the command "mydsl-install [filename]"
I think he meant mydsl-load ?
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Posted: Feb. 18 2007,16:39 QUOTE

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... and use the command "mydsl-install [filename]"
I think he meant mydsl-load ?

Whoops, thanks for catching that.

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Posted: Feb. 18 2007,17:01 QUOTE

Thanks for your replies

I've tried it... A little hard. At first, I was searching where is the location for mounted drives, finally i got it (/mnt/auto/cdrom1, i think). Well, i opened it and trying to play a divx .avi... nothing happens, also the red color for cdrom never got out. Then i tried to unmounted it, and finally succeed, not for the first try.

I believe DSL is too hard for me, even more for my wife, even more newbie than me.

I'm looking for a light distribution that can play movies, music and not too hard for an user.A word processor like abiword, gnumeric,... would be nicely.

Thanks for your time
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