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Topic: Save MyDSL installation, How to save Mydsl

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roberts

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Posted: Feb. 21 2006,17:19

This has been answered so many times!
In fact I answered it a couple of days ago!

It makes me wonder when there seems to be so little effort to even read the posts in the section that would obviously apply.

So again use the virtual drive hdb or make a bigger one!

kenzo

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Posted: Feb. 21 2006,18:03

ok, i have read this stuff as best as i can, and
i can honestly say that it is way over my head.

but thanks for the info anyway.

kenzo

pr0f3550r

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Posted: Feb. 21 2006,19:18

Quote (roberts @ Feb. 21 2006,12:19)

It makes me wonder when there seems to be so little effort to even read the posts in the section that would obviously apply.

@Roberts,

I may be lame but I did move the extension (opera) to the root of hdb and I did put the mydsl=hdb option at boot time, but I had a message complaining that the /opt/opera directory was missing.

So I wonder if I have to mount the extension before saving it to hdb, don't know if I make sense?

roberts

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Posted: Feb. 21 2006,20:32

You don't need to manually mount anything at boot time.
It works the same was as a normal frugal or liveCD dsl boot.

If it is setup as instructed then you will see the
checking for myDSL apps...
... and your saved extensions will be listed as they are mounted/loaded

For example I have xv.dsl, xchat.uci and opera.uci all on hdb
It *does* work as advertised.

Be sure that you use the latest version 2.2b for boot time support of uci type extensions.

But then, you *should* always use the latest version.

MGDsl

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Posted: Feb. 21 2006,23:02

I really try to get it, but it seems I will not and I also read as many postings I could find before asking the question, googling and all that.
If I follow the startup guide and "mkdir /optional" I must sudo. MyDSL will not accept to save anything there. I went for "mkdir "home/dsl/optional" and saved the amsn in that directory instead.
In .filetool.lst I have entered the full path to /home/dsl/optional and to /home/dsl/.filetool.lst. Following your:
"You don't need to manually mount anything at boot time.
It works the same was as a normal frugal or liveCD dsl boot." I have not changed anything in the dsl-linux.sh.

When closing DSL I get the warning that there are unsaved extensions and automatically the amsn files are showed as well as /mnt/hdb in the emelfm windows. The only thing to do to get pass the "unsaved extensions" warning is to move the amsn-files to /mnt/hdb, but I can understand this is not correct as they are no longer available after reboot. I can see that the prompt signals restore of backup files from hdb but I don't see any list.

So I am still stuck. I got the DSL to work perfectly and I just don't want to leave the MyDSL just because it is not as seamlessly achieved as the other parts, so please have patience. Reading the posts I think we are a few who would like advice as:

1) use the standard boot up script dsl-linux.sh or change it like this:
2) make this directory /?/?
3) download myDSL files to 2)
4) to have the specific programme at hand after reboot do
5)??

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