HD Install :: ramdisk directories
If you can't edit anything on /home/dsl, then your DSL installation may be is messed up.... or maybe you aren't on as the dsl user.. just use your home directory ~/ or maybe try /tmp instead?
After reinstalling the new version of dsl to hda2 and grub is choosen everything works just fine. 
After reinstalling to HD with grub, everything works fine.
original here.