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roberts

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Posted: May 14 2004,05:29

If the extensions are on the cd you don't need to do anything! No boot time option needed. This means you can build a completely self booting system targeted for a particular hardware configuration with absoutely no user interaction!

For example, by separating out your .xserverrc and .xinitrc and calling in myXsetup.tar.gz then the system will self boot up into your X environment. Also, it is cool to separate out your printer setup and call it myPrinter.tar.gz, keep factoring out the stuff that does not change much. Then your myDSL cdrom boots up with everything working. Now after this factoring, your backup truly becomes just a backup for your files that change often.

Also, you can have both. That is you can have some files on the cdrom and still enjoy adding and trying more on the hard drive. It is only a requirement to use the boot time option of mydsl when you are having the system look for additional files store on external media, i.e., hard drive or pen drive.

tbeu
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Posted: May 14 2004,06:24

I put all the *.dsl on my hda5 partition and during boot of DSL when it comes to the check for myDSL extensions I aways get the error

openoffice tar: not enough space on device

Which device is meant? My RAM is limited to 256MB and hda5 has free space of at least 1024MB. What can I do to avoid this error?

I was not able to find the other extensions (like firefox) at the DSL fluxbox menu even thouh there was no error during DSL boot.

Has anyone experienced the same probs?

Thanks from
tbeu

remo

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Posted: May 14 2004,06:26

ok, I realise that I'm a complete newb, and I feel quite dumb now. But I'll give it a go anyway... What I did, was to download the iso of 0.7, burn the image to a cd, boot dsl, then chose apps-tools-install to hard drive, chose the extended install I think, and then I got dsl 0.7 as a hd-installed distro on my laptop. Then I chose apps-net-got the bandwith?-firefox, and mozilla firefox installed beautifully. Now, I am used to distros with all these graphical frontends and stuff, so I kinda looked for a similar way of installing abiword and the others mentioned. I have read the getting started file, and all your replies, and I realise that I simply have to download the .dsl files and install them (right?). But my stupid question is really: where/how do I download them (from)?
Please walk me through this, cause I really want to learn this, and I really believe that dsl is going to be my new favourite distro for my desktop!

-r

remo

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Posted: May 14 2004,06:34

aaaaaaaaaah, I'm so stupid! I'm really sorry for bothering you and not thinking myself for a while! Just found out that the reasonable place to download them from would be the download mirrors...

Sorry folks! But now I am really eager to find out how this works, so please don't be angry if I come up with more stupid questions later ...

-r

roberts

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Posted: May 14 2004,06:35

I knew someone would try this. You obviously don't have enough memory to run all of them. The current OpenOffice states on the download page that it requires 384MB! So pick only what you need. And try first via the hard drive option. Remember these are new options for liveCD users. You will be limited by the amount of ram that you have.

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