HD Install :: Frugal? Needs more documentation!



Thanks for the reply Chris and I hope we can get this working.

As for the holier than thou comment, I guess its from my own frustration. I have found that its hard to get a answer that is doable for a noob. The answers always seem to be right but its like there is some step left out because its assumed the user should already know that. Lets leave that sleeping dog alone for the moment and try and get me straight. :)

Ok , so I want to back up my dsl spps and browser settings and desktop. This is to say that when I download an app and its installed and shows up when I right click, dsl apps etc. I had the system saving browser settings at one time but after messing it up I have reinstalled a number of times.

The reason my .filetool.kst is missing my dsl is because I am starting from scratch. This is how I think it should work. download apps amd install. Surf and set browsers cookies to my pages, hit back up to hda1...reboot, do a restore to hda1 and I would see all my icons on my desktop and my dsl apps woul;d be there.

If you need any more info please ask. I am waiting here all day untill I figure this out. :)

thanks again.

Phil
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With DSL comes many choices. And with each new release I am usually compounding the number choices.


OK, I understand now how it's so hard to right documentation, with all the choices. Maybe I'll just go through this board and built a Tips and Tricks Howto. That might be the way. But I'll need to study the sytem a little more frist.

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I know that John and others are so sick and tired of answering the same questions over and over but to me that seems to indicate a need for better documentation,


Maybe I was approching this the wrong way, Maybe the better document would be a PDF explaning the DSL Live CD system from Bootup to full X system.

I studied LFS for a while, and it did a lot for my comprehinsion of the Linux system. But DSL does things differently, I've seen some bits and picse on the web site. If you could build us a PDF system Blue print so to speak, high lighting places where DSL operates differently than a standard Linux system. It'd sure stop some of these repeat questions.

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I'm not sure where the 'holier than thou' comment is directed?

I'm not sure what he might, but I've often fealt that much of the documentation in the Linux world is writen with the idea that you know something to start with. Building on the usomtion that you have a understanding which often isn't there.

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