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Topic: /home/dsl directory was deleted. HELP, Help getting DSL to load

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la_buchanan Offline

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,17:51

I was using DSL one day and when I was finished I shutdown DSL.( I have a HD install) Well it seems during my time using it my /home/dsl directory was deleted and DSL won't let me login. During the time when I start the computer, it goes through the booting stage(detecting hardware, usb devices, etc) and when it starts to login as DSL, it says it can't because the DSL directory was deleted. I lost the DSL Live CD some time ago and I don't know what to do. I don't know anyplace where I can burn a new CD and my floppy drive was destroyed a long time ago. Can someone help me?!?

clivesay

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,18:02

Code Sample

sudo mkdir -p /home/dsl
sudo cp -Rp /etc/skel/* /home/dsl
sudo ./xsetup.sh

I am just taking a stab at this. The above commands may need to be tweaked. The /etc/skel dir contains the same files as /home/dsl. So you create a /home/dsl directory and then copy everything from /etc/skel to /home/dsl. Then you run xsetup to setup your resolution, mouse, etc.

I think this should work. It may not be perfect but maybe it can get you back up to an operational system.

I suspect a more experienced person than myself will chime in here.

HTH

Chris

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,19:42

I am not able to enter any commands. It says

Cannot load /home/dsl
Enter password:

and thats it. no mater what I do it just says that. I can't get into the command terminal or anything else. I've entered every word possible when it says that and I've gotten nowhere.

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clivesay

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,19:58

See if control-alt-C gets you a command prompt.

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Posted: Feb. 02 2005,02:10

Even better idea.

Boot with the live cd, and copy /home/dsl/* to your busted hdinstall.

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