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Serenity

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Posted: Mar. 29 2004,02:10

Hello, I'm new to linux, in fact, I've only been running DSL for 3 hours.. I'm a total convert

I am having some difficulties though.
How do I save files to the floppy drive? I have already got as far as making a backup of filetool.lst but when I went to save a screenshot in Xpaint I kept getting errors and could not see the floppy drive in the /dev list.

Arioch

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Posted: Mar. 29 2004,02:45

If you only need to backup your settings it should mount the floppy drive automatically and copy the files. Backup is in the menu under System.

Have you tried using the mount dockapp that comes up when you "enhance" the desktop?

Serenity

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Posted: Mar. 29 2004,03:15

To clarify my original post- I don't know what to put into the save as box so the screenshot (or any file I've made for that matter, whether its a webpage in dillo or whatever; I had a text file and I couldn't save that to floppy either.) gets saved to a disk in the floppy drive.

How do I make the floppy drive a seeable directory from all save as dialogs? I've heard the term 'mount the hard drive' and I am not sure if this is related in some way. For example, I've tried to save a screenshot with /dev/floppy/screenie.gif but I get errors saying invalid directory.

The only time I can see whats on the floppy drive is when I double click the resources meter thingy that as default docks on the right hand part of the screen. I found you can change the icon and double click on it opens a file viewer that looks more dos than windows iyswim. There I could see the backup files I made earlier- backup.tar.gz and filetool.lst. For that I typed dev/floppy and then it saved automatically. It has not created a directory on the floppy disk called floppy so I can only assume that in some parts of linux /floppy means floppy drive and not others.

I can't see why this procedure should be different for other applications. If it isn't, please explain.

I could also browse my windows formatted harddisks from there which was a little unnerving. It might even be possible to save my files directly onto my harddisks.. and then reboot in windows and there they are! If this could be done that would be great. Of course I'd like to get to the point where I won't need to do this anymore ;)

Serenity

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Posted: Mar. 29 2004,04:16

*yay* I found out how to do it. :laugh:

I found you have to change the dir one at a time. So first it was /mnt then /floppy then I could save with filename and [ok]. /me off to sleep.. what a long night figuring this out!

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Posted: Mar. 29 2004,04:56

I find that opening an rxvt and then #sudo scite (for instance, to open the SciTE
editor with root privileges) solves some of the "cannot write" problems.
Also, try and save to /home/damnsmall and not a sub-directory of that. Then,
once saved, you can move the file into the sub-directory with the:
#sudo mv mypicture.jpg /home/damnsmall/photos/
command.
(assuming that you have made a /photos directory.
For some additional help on all this, and saving your work, browse
this file:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/general_howto
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Hope some of this helps.
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I just finished a remaster of DSL that has a collection of jpg images
for use as wallpapers in the Fluxbox window manager.
I put them in a sub directory of /home/damnsmall, and they come up
automatically, without a line in my filetool.lst, when I boot up.
I don't touch that directory in the backup/restore, anything else I
download, I put in the "download" directory. I have a 200 KB restore
tarball now, and do not want to allow the images to get into that
tarball, when I backup. If one uses a usb stick to backup, then a nice
128 MB one will handle all, but I am stuck with a floppy.
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On the subject of wallpapers, put "webshots croatia" in Google, and
browse through some of the waterfall pictures there. That photographer
also has Alaska pictures, wonderful as wallpaper. Really shows off
Damn Small Linux to have something like that.
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