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jmhayes

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Posted: July 11 2005,16:30

Quote (jmhayes @ June 24 2005,18:37)

Now if I can just figure out how to keep it from running xsetup everytime I boot ...

Just getting back into this, but I guess I've done something wrong; it's like Groundhog Day: everytime I boot, it's like the first time. I can't seem to quite get the hang of how to persist changes. As I understand it, /KNOPPIX is an image that gets mounted at boot time, and things like /etc are mounted on a ramdisk copied from that image (for instance, /etc/passwd gets copied from /KNOPPIX/etc/passwd ...). I guess it would involve changing the stuff in /KNOPPIX but I've looked around at the various HOW-TOs and I must be missing something.

Brother can you spare a clue?

UndCon

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Posted: July 18 2005,12:13

The simplest solarPC setup seems identical to my servers and routers (using epia5000 motherboards)
http://undcon.no-ip.com for more info...

to save things i did like this:

make a folder "saves"

edit file filetool.lst (here all files/folders are listed to be saved)
add a new line at the end " home/dsl/saves

thats it...

to start up with saved settings (edit startscripts)
cdrom/syslinux.cfg

2:nd row starts with "APPEND" and its this line to edit in order to automate restoration similar to this:
APPEND ramdisk_size=10000 init lang=us restore sda1 apm=poweroff vga=79 (sda1 might not be your driveletter)

i added GIMP and save all settings...

DL gimp and install
wget http://dsl.thegeekery.com/mydsl/apps/gimp-2.2.0.dsl /cdrom
sudo cp gimp-2.2.0dsl /cdrom
mydsl-load gimp-2.2.0.dsl

then edit filetool.lst again
add: home/dsl/.gimp-2.2

BTW - i estimate about 9.3-15W with the epia power calculator

http://resources.mini-box.com/online....or.html at www.mini-box.com

a solarpanel creating 15W is enough...

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Diskless systems at http://undcon.no-ip.com

ke4nt1

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Posted: July 18 2005,15:21

WoW!
Those are great links.
Thanks for sharing..

I've got a solar panel that will output that!
Must hookup my epia5000 to it and a 12V reg. soon..

73
ke4nt

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