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Topic: saving files to hard drive..., while still running dsl on pendrive?

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Damn_Small_Jeff Offline

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Posted: June 28 2006,00:03

is it at all possible to save files to my hard drive and still run my dsl off of my pendrive?

mikshaw

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Posted: June 28 2006,01:55

You can write to ext2/3, reiserfs, fat16, and fat32 partitions, and maybe a few others (not ntfs, though).

You'll need to mount the drive first, which can generally be done with the mount tool that loads in the bottom of the screen. I've heard of some people for whom this doesn't work, but i'm not sure why...probably a sata drive or some other that wasn't automatically detected? Another possible problem would be if the user was running DSL embedded rather than native.

You'll also need to save the files as root unless you have a linux partition that contains a directory which is writeable by either numeric user 1001 or a numeric group of which dsl is a member (50 or 100, for example).

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Posted: June 28 2006,16:33

do you think you could wallk me throught that step by step? im not really linux savy

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Posted: June 28 2006,19:07

If you look in the bottom right corner of the screen you should see a little box with 2 buttons in it. The top button is probably labeled "fd0" or "cdrom". Click that button until it displays the partition you want to mount. It will probably be "hda1" or something very similar. hda1 is often the Linux equivalent of Windows' "C:".
If you see the appropriate partition, click the button below it that should start out labeled "unmounted".

If you can't find your partition, it is probably either NTFS or wasn't detected during the boot process. I can't help with either situation.

The mounting can also be done on commandline with the command sudo mount /dev/hda1, assuming /dev/hda1 is listed in /etc/fstab.

If you succeed in mounting the partition, it can be accessed with a file manager through the /mnt directory. If your partition was hda1, go to /mnt/hda1 to find your files.

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