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Posted: Aug. 26 2007,06:24 QUOTE

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Also the .filetool thing seem quite complex and hidden in the system, some gui for this could be user friendly.

Got that and several others done, double-click or drag-n-drop. You will see them in RC2.
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Posted: Aug. 28 2007,01:33 QUOTE

Apologies if this is already in DSL somewhere, or unrealistic:


Would it be possible to have the 'ramdisk' exist on a physical drive, rather than using ram? I ask as DSL is superb on the Toshiba Libretto, but these machines can't be expanded beyond 64Mb. As the unionfs system uses the ramdisk directory to permit alterations to RO files in the KNOPPIX directory there can be quite a bit of space taken up by files that could readily reside on a RW disk (hard drive or usb). The latest & best example I have is using ndiswrapper for my wireless card which loaded around 2Mb of files into ramdisk. I haven't dug into the scripts that set up ramdisk, but will do so if I get the time. I was wondering if this could be a simple option to have at startup that the ramdisk directory be created on a physical drive rather than in ram ( erased on shutdown, or when restarting). I appreciate this is slightly off the main development direction DSL, but it would permit it's use on systems where ram is severely limited, yet there is space on a physical drive. I realise a hard-drive install could get round the problem of files being stored in ramdisk, but I prefer the frugal installation for ease of upgrading (and also recovery from experimentation!).
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Posted: Aug. 28 2007,04:00 QUOTE

Hmm, somthing to think about. Another type of frugal hybrid installation.
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