MrD
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Joined: Nov. 2005 |
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Posted: Nov. 23 2005,05:44 |
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Thanks -- this is getting more interesting. I have figured out how to get myDSL apps to work and also how to break them again.
First, a couple of changes: I added 1gb of RAM today for total of 1.5 gb. I've been wanting to do that for a while, so thx DSL/Knoppix for the excuse to bling some RAM. Secondly, I'm now using DSL v2rc2 (was v1.5)
I moved all my *.dsl apps to /mnt/hdb2 as a temp holding space, then totally cleaned off /mnt/hdb3. I wanted a clean slate. Nice thing about DSL is that's easy to do.
At reboot, did the following command, and on a whim, decided to copy the cd contents to the harddrive using the tohd=hdxx parameter:
Code Sample | boot: dsl home=hdb3 opt=hdb3 tohd=hdb2 |
What happened next totally floored me. ALL myDSL apps loaded!! I didn't specify a mydsl=xxxx location. Holy crap! -- how does this work?
So I did a couple of experiments.
Code Sample | boot: dsl home=hdb3 opt=hdb3 toram |
Result -- no myDSL apps
I moved GTK2-0705 and AbiWord GTK dsl apps back to /mnt/hdb3/home/dsl. I renamed the others *.bak and rebooted:
Code Sample | boot: dsl mydsl=hdb3 home=hdb3 opt=hdb3 toram |
Result -- no myDSL apps!
Hmm. So then rebooted again using the harddrive parameter:
Code Sample | boot: mydsl=hdb3 dsl home=hdb3 opt=hdb3 fromhd=hdb2 |
Result -- no myDSL apps!
So is this how it suppose to work or am I tripping over a bug? I need to test a little more to answer that myself. However, as for now I will not use the "mydsl=hdxx" startup parameter, just let it default. This gets interesting too -- because "mydsl=hdxx" parameter defaults to the cdrom *however*, if one uses the "fromhd=hdxx", the hd device becomes the cd device. OK, that threw me for a loop!! I figured that out by trying to mount the hdb2 drive and then getting an error msg "device busy and so on"
So -- for now I'm saving myDSL apps to the root of the hdb2, starting DSL from hdb2 using the "fromhd=hdxx parameter, and setting my home and opt on hdb3. I won't be using "toram" or "mydsl=hdxx".
Code Sample | boot: dsl home=hdb3 opt=hdb3 fromhd=hdb2 |
Result: Abiword GTK looks great.
Any further explanation of how myDSL suppose to work would be helpful.
Thx!
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