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roberts

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Posted: Sep. 13 2007,18:03

You should read the "Getting Started" document.

Extensions should not be downloaded in the home directory.
Doing so will cause your backup to slow to a crawl if not overrun your backup device.

The level one /mydsl directory must be on a persistent storage device, i.e., a partition on a hard drive or flash device.

Divago

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Posted: Sep. 14 2007,08:19

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Extensions should not be downloaded in the home directory.
Doing so will cause your backup to slow to a crawl if not overrun your backup device.

The level one /mydsl directory must be on a persistent storage device, i.e., a partition on a hard drive or flash device

Oh... really?
i use http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page as documentation

btw, if i use a persistent mydsl directory (think will be not so different than having a persistent home

) i need to change the .mydsl file?
i mean: i found a /home/dsl/.mydsl file;

Code Sample

# cat /home/dsl/.mydsl
/home/dsl/

so i think this will point to directory where are stored mydsl extension

if i change directory (creating a persistent mydsl folder) i need to change this one too, right?

Juanito

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Posted: Sep. 14 2007,11:21

Maybe it would illustrate things better to give an example.

I am booting a laptop from a usb stick which is named sda1 - under dsl, it contains the following:

/mnt/sda1/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX
/mnt/sda1/lost+found
/mnt/sda1/mydsl --> [put the extensions to load at boot here]
/mnt/sda1/mydsl/optional --> [put the extensions for the right-click menu here]
/mnt/sda1/backup.tar.gz
/mnt/sda1/f2
/mnt/sda1/boot.cat
/mnt/sda1/extlinux.conf
/mnt/sda1/f3
/mnt/sda1/linux24
/mnt/sda1/minirt24.gz
/mnt/sda1/boot.msg
/mnt/sda1/extlinux.sys
/mnt/sda1/german.kbd
/mnt/sda1/logo.16

dsl will automatically find the extensions in /mydsl and /mydsl/optional. In dsl-n, I believe you will need to use a boot code "mydsl=sda1" or similar.