Cammo
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Joined: Mar. 2006 |
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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,03:33 |
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I am a fair n00b too but I figure I want help the forum I might as well answer the questions that I can :P
A) To save settings, you need to set a backup device, whether it be a USB stick (not sure if the same one you load from will work...), a harddrive, etc. Just go to the DSL control panel, click the button called backup/restore, and tell it what device you want to use (hda1, sda1, etc). It will automatically back up things like firefox history, anything in /home/dsl, etc. You can also tell it to back things up by going into emelfm, selecting the file you want to back up, and pusing "add2filetool" button (these are for things that don't backup automatically.) If the device is attached the next time you boot DSL, it will restore everything automatically.
B) You don't really need to run a portable app like in windows. Simply go to MYDSL (or the online version under the download->mirror>mydsl section and plop some .dsl files of the program you like onto your harddrive, or USB key. If they are in the root directory you can boot up dsl using the "dsl mydsl=sda1 (or hda1, etc) boot key and it will load all the programs in that directory to ram. Alternatively, you could just save them somewhere, and when you want to run one, find the .dsl in emelfm and hit the "mydsl" button. When you restart, the program is uninstalled automatically, but settings are saved.
C) To browse stuff from your harddrives, you simply have to mount them. Look at the tool in the bottom right corner; choose the harddrive you want to mount (ie hda1, hdb1, etc) and hit the mount button. Then browse to /mnt/hda or whatever in emelfm, and there is your harddrive!
D) This is the one field with which I'm not familiar. Anything you add is removed at restart, the stuff built into DSL I don't think you can remove easily.
Hope this helps! Any follow ups or further explanations, don't hesitate to ask.
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