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I'm reluctant to ask this because I know I'm doing something silly, but...

What I'm trying to do:
I work on several computers between home and work.  I would like to boot up a DSL cd, load my customizations, and then save backup.tar.gz and my extensions on hda1 so that in the future, I can have each computer just ready and waiting to give me my custom work or home environment with a "dsl mydsl=hda1 restore=hda1".

The trouble I'm having:
I can't mount hda1 as read/write!  On my home computer or on my work computers.

What I've tried:
* Booting simply from CD.
* Booting from my flashdrive with a "dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1"
* Within both of these environments, I've tried the automount desktop app in fluxbox.  
* I've tried "sudo mount -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1" in bash.

Like I said, I'm sure it's something very simple that I'm missing.  Can anybody see it?

if your partitions are NTfs on winXP you can mount them read only. But they are read protected and unlockable with usual stufs.
Quote (loupdesteppes @ April 18 2006,09:15)
if your partitions are NTfs on winXP you can mount them read only. But they are read protected and unlockable with usual stufs.

It is WinXP partitions that I'm trying to mount.  I should have said that.

They are mounting read-only and that's what I want to work around.  What are the "usual stufs"?

Have you considered using a USB memeory stick of some kind? That way you will not have backups, favorites, etc. spead out all over the place (been there, done that). By saving your backup to a USB memory stick thingy, you'll always have the most current backup with you and no one will have access to it. You can have all your files, etc. on it as well. You can avoid storing it on a hard drive where others may have the potential to accidentaly delete it, etc. Also, if some of those PC's belong to your employer, they may not appreciate you storing DSL stuff on it. Also, they may have some kind of software inventory or other programs that could destroy your data, or just make notes that you are using non-company issued software. ...... Yes, sometimes I'm paranoid.
Quote (green @ April 18 2006,10:56)
Have you considered using a USB memeory stick of some kind? That way you will not have backups, favorites, etc. spead out all over the place (been there, done that). By saving your backup to a USB memory stick thingy, you'll always have the most current backup with you and no one will have access to it. You can have all your files, etc. on it as well. You can avoid storing it on a hard drive where others may have the potential to accidentaly delete it, etc. Also, if some of those PC's belong to your employer, they may not appreciate you storing DSL stuff on it. Also, they may have some kind of software inventory or other programs that could destroy your data, or just make notes that you are using non-company issued software. ...... Yes, sometimes I'm paranoid.

Okay, I've heard mikshaw mention something similar.  How, then, exactly do you set up different "profiles" on your USB DSL system?  Set up different folders like "work" and "play" that each contains a separate backup.tar.gz?  And then enter a "dsl restore=sda1/work" kind of deal?
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