Rapidweather
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Posted: Mar. 14 2004,01:17 |
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Here are some tips on using luit linux:
Most of you are going to use a restore tarball with this, to get Foxfire, and your other items, like your wallpaper. A good Damnsmall 0.6.1 backup.tar.gz will do just fine.
l. Boot from the cd, and once up and running, copy the ~/.xfce4/xinitrc file to
/home/damnsmall/.xinitrc.
2. Once you restore (more on this below), I have to ctrl-alt-backspace to get out
of the xfce window manager, and to a text prompt.
3. Then "startx". That will use the .xinitrc file in item No. 1 above, to bring xfce
back up, and all of your restored settings, etc. will be there!
Now for my restore/backup:
l. Boot from the cd, sudo su in an rxvt, and:
cd /mnt
2. I keep my backup.tar.gz, filetool.sh and filetool.lst in another hard drive
partition, at /dev/hdb1.
3. cd hdb1 > this gets you to the backup directory.
4. ./filetool.sh restore
5. Also, you need to modify your filetool.lst to include the .xfce4 directory,
so all the settings will be saved. (get this fixed up before the restore)
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Here is my filetool.lst:
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/home/damnsmall/.xfce4
/home/damnsmall/Desktop/Autostart
/home/damnsmall/.fluxbox
/home/damnsmall/.xtdesktop < you don' t need this
/home/damnsmall/.xinitrc
/home/damnsmall/.blackboxrc
/home/damnsmall/.dillo
/home/damnsmall/.links
/opt/firefox
/home/damnsmall/.phoenix
/home/damnsmall/web.html
/home/damnsmall/web_files
/home/damnsmall/upload
/home/damnsmall/kreon
/home/damnsmall/.start_synaptic
/etc/wvdial.conf
/ramdisk/usr/bin/wvdialconf
/ramdisk/usr/bin/wvdial
/ramdisk/usr/bin/wvdial.conf
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The xtdesk stuff is not needed in luit linux, and since it has wvdial,
most of that is not needed, but let /etc/wvdial.conf stay.
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Here is my menu, that has the restoration changes to point to the
/dev/hdb1 shown in my example:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/xfce4_menu_xml
Of course, you need rename it to menu.xml when you use it in
/home/damnsmall/.xfce4/menu.xml
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Also, here is my filetool.sh to go with this:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/xfce4_filetool_sh
That file needs to go in the partition with your backup.tar.gz, your
filetool.lst, and can be named as filetool.sh or left as is.
It is easier to restore in an rxvt to have the shorter name of
filetool.sh.
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In review, once you have adjusted all the settings in xfce, you can backup,
and this includes getting a nice wallpaper, too, and placing that image file
in a directory that will be saved in the tarball. I have the /home/damnsmall/kreon
directory for that in my filetool.lst.
(You need to make the directory first, of course, and place all your to-keep
files in /kreon. ( I made that name up, look it up on google).
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I'll get back in here if I have more!
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