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Topic: How to mount my usb disk? How to update fluxbox?, Some newb questions

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cbagger01

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Posted: Dec. 26 2004,07:09

For the USB stick:

1) Plug it in before booting up DSL. This will allow for autodetection and creation of a mountpoint for this device.

2) Move your mouse over to the Mount.app window in the bottom right corner of the DSL desktop. Use the tiny arrow buttons to bring up "sda1". Then press the button and the status color changes to Green. Your USB drive is now mounted and the contents are accessable inside the /mnt/sda1 directory.

Alternative method:
Open up the Emeflm file manager and navigate to the /mnt directory. Then Right-Click on the "sda1" subdirectory and choose "Mount" from the context menu. You will then have access to your thumbdrive files.

When you are finished reading or writing to your USB drive, you can unmount it by either pushing the button again on the mount.app window until the green light goes away or you can use emelfm to move up to the /mnt directory and then Right-Click on the "sda1" subdirectory and choose "Unmount" from the context menu.

When the action is completed, you can then safely remove your USB device.

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Posted: Dec. 26 2004,07:49

Quote (chooikw @ Dec. 26 2004,01:14)

-Download the fluxbox from mydsl
-Untar it and move the fluxbox to /opt

Don't know it makes a difference, but you can just download, find the file in emelfm, then click the "mydsl" button (or similarly labeled), this will automatically extract it to the right directory.

What do you define as "restart"? Do you restart X (alt-ctrl-backspace, then "startx" at the prompt), or restart DSL? If your .xinitrc is showing "/opt/fluxbox-0.9.11/bin/fluxbox" instead of "fluxbox", then by rights it SHOULD work. (NB: make sure the directory typed matches your installed version, there's been several releases in the past few months)

I'm thinking possibly the files haven't been extracted to the right path, but then if .xinitrc is pointing to that path it probably wouldn't work?
Double-check both the extracted files and the .xinitrc, and let us know, 'cause if they are both right I'm stumped (but then again, I'm easily stumped with this stuff...)

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chooikw

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Posted: Dec. 26 2004,08:54

Quote (cbagger01 @ Dec. 26 2004,02:09)

Move your mouse over to the Mount.app window in the bottom right corner of the DSL desktop. Use the tiny arrow buttons to bring up "sda1". Then press the button and the status color changes to Green. Your USB drive is now mounted and the contents are accessable inside the /mnt/sda1 directory.

This fixed my problem,thanks

For the fluxbox, i did click the mydsl button in emelfm and the .xinitrc is pointing to the right path. I restart it by shutdown and open again.It will hang if i choose "restart" from the powerdown.

mikshaw

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Posted: Dec. 26 2004,15:44

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-Edit /home/dsl/.xinitrc and replace the fluxbox with /opt/fluxbox-0.9.11

Then i restart and type fluxbox -version but it still showing that it is version 0.1.14

Is '/opt/fluxbox-0.9.11' exactly what you put in xinitrc?
It should be '/opt/fluxbox-0.9.11/bin/fluxbox'

When you type 'fluxbox' it uses the first fluxbox in your path. Fluxbox-0.9.11 is not in your path, which is why you need to add the full path to it in .xinitrc, and if you want to get the version you need to do '/opt/fluxbox-0.9.11/bin/fluxbox -version', although that's kinda redundant since the version is already displayed in the command.

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ph00dz

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Posted: Dec. 29 2004,05:00

Hey... on the usb stick front, what if you're running dsl embedded from the usb stick itself? Is it possible to build for oneself a safe space where dsl and windows can share files... like in a separate fat16 partition?

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