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Posted: June 10 2005,16:19 QUOTE

Hello everyone,

I have done a DSL 1.1 frugal install to a cf which is partitioned as 56 meg (hda1) for DSL and 200 meg (hda2) for file storage and backup/restore.  

When I did the installation, I specified hda2 as the target for home, opt, mydsl, and backup/restore. According to the "Getting Started with DSL Version 1.1" document, you should copy your apps with the .dsl extension to the root of your drive designated for mydsl storage.  I down loaded Openoffice with the uci extension and Festival.dsl as a test.

When I reboot, the apps are not recognized.  I can go into  emlfm, highlight the apps and click mydsl and the are loaded and it all works until I reboot.

Did I miss something during my frugal install?  I was following the directions posted by clivesay on this forum and have reinstalled two more times with the same results.

By the way, I am fairly new to DSL and I am really impressed by DSL, the user community, and your helpful spirit.
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Posted: June 10 2005,23:57 QUOTE

When you first get into emelfm, does your home in the dsl system look the same as the one on your cf hda2?  ie., does it look like that's linking properly at boot, maybe check if it's booting with the home=hda2 opt=hda2 options.  Try saving something to /home/dsl in the system, and on reboot see if it appears in the home dir on your cf hda2?
That's about all I can think of at the moment, thinking that if it's not linking to hda2 at boot, it won't see the extensions to load.
Just getting rid of the obvious(?) causes first.


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Posted: June 11 2005,16:08 QUOTE

Thanks for the reply, RoGuE_Streak.  I checked the /home and /opt directories on both the hda2 partition and the ram disk.  They both appear to be identical.

There must be a file that points to where mydsl apps are stored that is not being updated when I do the frugal install.  Would this be the .mydsl_dir file located in the /opt directory?  This file contains the entry /tmp at the present time.  

Unfortunately, the computer that I am playing with is at work and I will not be able to try any thing else until Monday  I hate having to set around all week end worrying about a silly problem that I am probably causing by an installation error, but such is life.
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Posted: June 11 2005,16:12 QUOTE

Sorry, I accidently double posted and do not know how to remove this second post.  Thanks for your understanding.
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Posted: June 14 2005,22:03 QUOTE

Did you have any luck?  I'm having the exact same problem.  Followed the howto for a frugal install to the letter, and have hda1 as my main partition with hda2 set for everything else, including mydsl.

System is a VIA C3-800 on an AOpen PLE133T MATX board (same chips you'd find on an EPIA 800).

Tried choosing hda2 as the download directory when getting mydsl extensions and it put everything in /mnt/hda2/home/dsl.  Mydsl extensions don't load on reboot, and also get copied to my ramdisk.  Wouldn't let me copy them to the root directory of hda2 until I loaded emelfm as superuser, but still the mydsl extensions don't load on startup.  I have downloaded the .dsl for GTK2+ and the .uci for Firefox 1.04.

Currently have the partitions set up on a 15gig harddrive, but planning to use a 512mb CF card in an IDE converter.
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