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Topic: restore will ignore programs, pptp client wont restore

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sputnik

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Posted: Sep. 02 2005,19:04

Hello All...I have been trying to prepare my own cd image with my programs. The first step, of course is to be able to load with the default live cd and restore my configuration. Most of the things (files and configuration) are in place after restore, except pptp-linux (a pptp vpn client). On the filetools i included the directory /usr/sbin/pptp, and I can see it packed in backup.tar.gz, but it wont run or reinstall it when I restore/reboot. What am I missing?

Regards,

mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 02 2005,19:22

Here's my guess (never tested it):
Files in the base system (anything in /usr, /bin, /sbin, /lib) will not restore until the mkwriteable script has been run. This can be done automatically by including a myDSL package with a ".dsl" extension in the root partition, or in a partition specified by the "mydsl=<device>" boot option. You could build a mydsl extension from the program and it should do what you need.

The backup/restore system is mainly for backing up personal files and configurations....extra programs are typically loaded through the myDSL system or dpkg.

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