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thanks, i will try that and give you some feedback next week. I am gone all week.

cheers

just did it this morning. all is well

thks

Please help. I HD installed V0.7 as usual using boot.img and DSL folder&files copied to C:\ hda1 root. I put the extensions here too. I got a message saying 'not enough storage on the device' - lack of memory probably - I've only got 40megs. So I moved the extensions into a temp folder where they were not invoked by the boot. When HD istalled, I mounted hda1 partition and copied extensions across to top of hda2 DSL installed root partition. Using tar -zxvf etc. I managed to install Abiword sucessfully and, by the sounds of it, Gnu-utils.
Question: This is great but to start Abiword I need to double-click 'abiword' file within the /opt directory where it ended up.
How do I make a desktop icon form here? Should I place the extension somewhere else first to get an icon automatically?
The gnu-utils extension installed without error messages but I cannot find them - where might they be? what should I look for? I've read the previous posts but they seem to be mostly 'live' relevant.

Quote (roberts @ May 13 2004,20:10)

myDSL as posted is really for liveCD users. But I supposed there will always be those who will hack away.

Granted. But in the case of my Thinkpad, the CD-ROM drive is part of the base which also houses the floppy and an extra battery as well as some port pass-thrus/replication and "better" speakers - a heavy, klunky affair. If I want my laptop light and thin, it's hard drive only.

As such, I did an HD install of .7 and added Abiword and Sun Office via your way-cool .dsl file thing. Works great.

Keep up the good work and have mercy on us DSL fans with the itsy-bitsy hard-drive-only laptops. Oh, how we suffer.

Quote (Delboy @ May 20 2004,22:45)

to start Abiword I need to double-click 'abiword' file within the /opt directory where it ended up.
How do I make a desktop icon form here?

I had to copy abi-ant.png and abiword.lnk from
/home/damnsmall/.xdesktop
(which had those two files) to
/root/.xdesktop
(which didn't have them) and reboot in order to get it to show up in my HD install.

I had to do the same thing when I installed Sun Office.

Note those two .xdesktop directories are different and you might have to copy others over as you install new .dsl stuff.

Enjoy.

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