HD Install :: MyDSL extension download path

With a typical DSL system, nothing is permanent until you make it so. With live cd or one of the other compressed-filesystem types the only writeable places are in ramdisk, initially.

If you have a traditional type of harddrive installation, then that is the one exception. You may want to be aware that everything done in DSL development is done specifically for the compressed-type systems...the traditional harddrive installation is not very actively supported or encouraged except as a last resort for very old hardware. In your case /home/dsl is probably a good place to download your extensions, but for a typical DSL system that uses backup/restore it would not be a good place.

As an added note, if you have a traditional harddrive install, many of the packages you download do not need to be kept anyway. The only ones which will not remain installed are uci and unc packages.

That's strange; hard drive installs are always quicker...

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