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Topic: USB - Confused, Got it working but what am I doing

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damianiw

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Posted: July 10 2005,21:39

Hi,

I'm running dsl 1.2.1

First of all I made a USB-Zip install using the menu in DSL, worked fine but windows would not let me mount the 2nd partition - not good on a 1GB key so I tried a USB-HDD install.

This works, I've even got the floppy to work for an old laptop to boot the usb key.

I've got a few questions, I don't seem to be able to write to sda1 when I've booted from it, have I done something wrong ?

Is this what would be known as a frugal install - if not what's the difference.

Finally how do I remaster this to include some wireless drivers I've got the files for.

Ps Thanks DSL really rocks

cbagger01

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Posted: July 11 2005,16:16

Try going to the menu and choose:

Emelfm as Super User

Then copy files to sda1. sda1 is already mounted and is located at the /cdrom mountpoint.

damianiw

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Posted: July 11 2005,19:18

Thanks, I've just worked that one out, is there anyway to enable the dsl user to do this ?

I've tried resetting permissions in emelfm but no luck.

I'm guessing for general saving I should use the home dir as this is backed up to the memory key when I choose or shutdown.

cbagger01

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Posted: July 12 2005,03:29

You may be able to adjust the mount permissions in your /etc/fstab and then remount the drive so that user DSL can write to it, but I doubt that you can do it on-the-fly, unless you boot up with the

dsl toram frugal

boot command.

damianiw

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Posted: July 13 2005,13:09

Thanks I'll give it a go, now for some more silly questions !

What does issuing the frugal command do, I get confused with frugal

I've got a nice USB stick working but another laptop I use won't boot from USB so I've made a CD remaster with some optional extensions etc - it's nice as I simply issue dsl restore=sda1 to get my settings

However I've noticed that some machines (notably laptops again) my mouse doesn't work unless I do a donotrestore or similar, is there anyway to get it to scan for the mouse at startup as sometimes it's USB, or PS2 which seems to be causing the problem.

I'd also like to include some themes, can I do this without remastering again ?

If I did have to remaster where should I put them in the root of the remaster folder ?

I also had some wireless drivers to put in but it's not worked, I'm looking at this on another thread, is it possible to make a hd install then remaster this to CD as it has the drivers in place

The normal remastering doesnt rebuild the knoppix file which I think is the problem for the driver.

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