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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,15:26

What I do is go ahead and save them to /tmp. Then make sure hda3 is mounted and open midnight commander as a super user ("sudo mc"). I then use midnight commander to copy the .dsl file from the /tmp directory to /mnt/hda3.

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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,19:22

thanks, works grat

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Posted: Sep. 08 2005,22:09

There are a number of ways to do this in a shell or file tool.

Here's the way I use EMELFM..

Mount the partition in need..
( NOT your booting partition, but most any other one )
(For this example - frugal on hda2, storage on hda3)

Open up emelfm as super user..
Open /mnt , and highlight the /hda3 line ( single left click )
Then right click to properties>permissions, and make all the
"write" boxes active.. click "OK"

Then double click the /hda3 line to go inside /mnt/hda3
And right click and make active all properties>permissions>write boxes - same as above.

Exit super user emelfm.

Your hda3 should be writable now from any user.
Put whatever you want in it..

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,01:46

Question from a new user. Does cfdisk work on a NTFS partition? I want to do a frugal install of DSL but can't or don't know how to partition hda to load frugal. I don't see anything in cfdisk that will let me create a new partition. Thanks for any assistance!

mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 12 2005,01:50

cfdisk is all about creating partitions.
It won't create an ntfs partition, though...ntfs is a closed format. The best you can do is clear that crap out completely and replace it with a real filesystem.

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