HD Install :: Persistent myDSL extensions

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Thanks Roberts! :cool:

I've read bout everything i could find on the boards here, and the dillo start up page, and still I can't seem to get myDSL applications to persist on a frugal install.
My setup is this:

hda1-- DSL image.../hda1/KNOPPIX and /hda1/boot
hda2 -- /opt and /home
hda3 -- swap

with that setup what is the stepXstep guide to getting dsl, uci, tar.gz extensions to persist and icons to remain on desktop?

Anyhelp much apreciated, this seems to be the only Frugal obstacle that i can not seem to jump on my own.

Thanks,
Rob

With your frugal setup /dev/hda1 is mounted as /cdrom and is writeable for user root.
So copy your desired extensions to /cdrom and then they wll autoload at boot time.

Thanks that was the ticket, it worked.

I have a very similar setup to the one described above. I have an old laptop with a 2GB harddrive, I created three partitions which look like this, (pretty much what the frugal install suggests):

hda1 - 500 mb - /
hda5 - 1400mb - opt and home
hda6 - 268mb - swap

I downloaded a couple of myDSL extentions, gtk2 and gaim, placed them in /cdrom so they are loaded at boot, but when they try to load a get a message that I am out of space. I don't know how that can be and I am not sure where they are trying to extract to.

Any advice would be created appreciated.

Thanks for the help.

jags78

I think that you're going to need to put your mydsl downloads into one of two places, depending on whether you want them automatically installed each boot or you want them available for optional install. I don't think the cdrom folder is going to work. On my frugal, I only want mine available, so I created a folder /mnt/hda5/optional, chown to dsl and then download to here. If you want them to install each boot, then put them into /mnt/hda5.

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