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Dear all,

Iīm totally new to linux! Apart from some little use of live cds! Today I installed DSL 3.1 on my old compaq armada 1750 (P2 300 mhz/128mb). Everything is working fine and quite fast!!

Now I just wanted to install some programs (Openoffice 2.0/ amsn 0.96/0.95/tlc8.4/firefox 2.0). I noticed that I had to load them every time I start up with DSL and they were loaded into the ram instead of installed on the harddrive! Now I did some googling and looking around and I was wondering what do you advice me to do when I want to install programs on my harddrive!

Use apt-get? dpkg? Or autopackage?

Does anyone have some short description or some useful links to help me on my way?

thx allot in advance
Please look up on how to use frugals, backup/restore, autoloading features, and the difference between mydsl extensions.
DSL by default is designed to run from a read-only filesystem, much like the live cd. This means that any applications or other data added to your system will be stored in ram, and lost when you reboot. This would be very annoying if DSL did not have ways to save your data and applications between sessions.

Various methods of preserving data include auto-loading mydsl extensions, the backup/restore system, and using a persistent home directory. These subjects are covered in the DSL wiki, and more info can b found by searching these forums.
first off all thanks allot for the fast reactions!

As understand it correctly DSL isnīt designed to have programs installed to the HD (ie. firefox/openoffice). Itīs only possible to mount programs during startup!

Iīve edit my grub menu.lst
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title DSL
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda4 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal mydsl=hda4/home/dsl/mydsl/


Is this the correct command? Because the files (tcltk-8.4.uci & firefox-2.0-gtk1.uci) inside the mydsl directory arenīt loaded during the startup!?! Should I use
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toram mydsl=hda4/home/dsl/mydsl


That doesnīt work either for me!

As far as I understand the backup/restore system and using a persistent home directory. Those two are used to load saved settings from the system. Are they useful for loading an extra program like firefox during the boot?
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As understand it correctly DSL isnīt designed to have programs installed to the HD (ie. firefox/openoffice). Itīs only possible to mount programs during startup!
Nope... check out the mydsl tool on the desktop (mydsl-load for terminal).

Yes that mydsl= should work if you have home/dsl/mydsl created on hda4.  But I seem to remember older versions of DSL did not look for uci type extensions.  You can add commands to load them in /opt/bootlocal.sh though if you don't want to upgrade.

toram just loads the image all into RAM (see wiki page on cheatcodes).

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As far as I understand the backup/restore system and using a persistent home directory. Those two are used to load saved settings from the system. Are they useful for loading an extra program like firefox during the boot?
No they are different, but can share some aspects. home is a whole partition dedicated to (and mounted as) /home.  Please read up on backup/restore for those details (backup.tar.gz).

Maybe just for clarification, what type of installation are you using?
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