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Posted: Aug. 09 2006,05:20 QUOTE

With a typical DSL system, nothing is permanent until you make it so.  With live cd or one of the other compressed-filesystem types the only writeable places are in ramdisk, initially.

If you have a traditional type of harddrive installation, then that is the one exception.  You may want to be aware that everything done in DSL development is done specifically for the compressed-type systems...the traditional harddrive installation is not very actively supported or encouraged except as a last resort for very old hardware.  In your case /home/dsl is probably a good place to download your extensions, but for a typical DSL system that uses backup/restore it would not be a good place.

As an added note, if you have a traditional harddrive install, many of the packages you download do not need to be kept anyway.  The only ones which will not remain installed are uci and unc packages.


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Posted: Aug. 20 2006,10:05 QUOTE

That's strange; hard drive installs are always quicker...
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