HD Install :: Persistent myDSL extensions

Quote (starcannon @ Jan. 09 2006,18:58)

Jags heres what i learned and implemented:

1)store all your DSL extensoions in your /mnt/hda5/home/dsl/My-DSL (or where ever you wanna store the dsl directory.

2)symlink the DSL extension into /cdrom (if you try to put 5 megs of extensions in a full up 50meg partition thats holding your boot image it will complain, symlinks are tiny tho, so can put loads of those in

)

3) if swap is not active then boot from CDRom with "dsl 2 vga=xxx"
dsl@box~$ sudo su
bash-2.05b# swapon /dev/hda6 (or whatever partition your swap is on)
reboot

4) if this post was correct you should now buy a 6pack of fat tire ale and drink one for me

Have fun and let us know if it works out.

Rob

As a total noob to DSL I have been searching/reading/trying different ways to keep opera850.uci
persistent and have yet to succeed! Finding your post has given me new hope - Now if you would
just be kind enough to walk me thru these two steps it would me much appreciated!

My frugal setup is as follows
hda8 -- DSL image - 55meg
hda9 -- /opt & /home - 1gig
hda6 -- swap (also used as swap for other distros) 540meg
Have 3gig of ram so swap never seems to get used by any distos I use or have tested
Boot via grub including the options home=hda8 mydsl=hda8

1)store all your DSL extensoions in your /mnt/hda5/home/dsl/My-DSL

"store" How? I am a drag & drop via KDE person and when I attempt a download to hda9 it
results in an error msg telling me to mount a directory and try again

2)symlink the DSL extension into /cdrom

Each time I have download the .uci by default it goes to /tmp. Lets say I manage to "store" it
in /mnt/hda9/home/dsl/My-DSL, could you provide an example or explain how to create a symlink
to /cdrom

If it makes any difference, all tweaks, bookmarks, ect which I do when opera is installed are
saved - Just lose the desktop icon, opera850 dir, and sub dirs for it after a reboot.

While you can do it this way, it is not recommended.
It is alot of manual work, making symlinks and then to update .xfiletoo.lst.
And I would not say it may or may not be supported going forward.

There is alot of documentation on how to save extensions, but let me recap here and in particular for a frugal type setup.

1. Make your target system install directory much larger so as to accomodate storing extensions.
or
2. Make an additional partition just for mydsl extensions.

With option 1 you can just Drag-N-Drop the extensions to /cdrom
With option 2 you edit the file /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.list and add mydsl=hdxy
Then Drag-N-Drop to this other partition hdxy
You can also make the "optional" directory on this additional partition.

A little setup at the beginning save a whole lot of work later.

This symlink and .xfiletool.lst method works when there was not enough space allocated on the install partition and no other partition was created for the extensions.

Allocating space is the desired way.
You will be glad you did, when you see what I have comming in DSL v2.2

Thanks Roberts - Have just been playing/testing DSL on my main system.
When I install it on the sys which shall run it full time will take your advice
and make the install dir larger - Seems the easy way and I like easy. Did
finally get the .uci file copied over to my home & opt partition but had to do
it using another distro - Just can't get the hang of using Emelfm! Already
had mydsl=hdxy in menu.lst so now opera is persistent and loads at boot.

Another question if you don't mind - Is there a way to get the keyboard
number pad keys to NOT act like Num Lock is ON? A minor matter but
one which bugs those of us who use those keys with Num Lock OFF.

Regards, JGC

I have a hd install. all works well and i even got the ALSA (alsa.dsl) drivers to work on my soundcard...but the dam thing doesnt stay installed after reboot. Do i have to manually back up every dir the drivers touch/ write to or is there an easier way? also..i used to run a frugal install and new where my home and dsl apps were, now that i have a full hd install im not so sure

better yet...is there a way to just backup my entire system...because i finally have it perfect...with the exception of the ALSA drivers not loading on boot.

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