HD Install :: Posting this from a newly Frugalled laptop



With a persistent home/opt a backup could be useful. As with a backup in any system, if something goes wrong during a day's work, you have that backup with which to help fix things.
I understand what you're saying, though.  I use persistent home and opt, and haven't bothered with the backup/restore system in several months.  It's just much simpler to have everything already in place.
OK, I've created a persistent home and opt now on hda3. They DO still appear in the ramdisk, but any changes made there immediately affect the equivalent file on hda3. I guess they're not REALLY loaded in ram, then?
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Quote (SomeGuyWithDSL @ July 14 2005,19:28)
5. When I click on a category, such as "Games," in MyDSL, it takes a verrrrry long time for the next window to appear. 3-5 minutes, usually. Nothing else on the system is running even remotely slowly, what could be causing a delay right there?

I also find that this happens to me sometimes. For me it seems to be the first time that I go to use it. I guess I have never had the patience to wait and see how long it would take to finish I usually just kill it and do it again. The second time it seems to work in a timely manner. I dont have any clue as to why it may do this. Just thought I would let you know it happens to me too sometimes.

By the way I have learned about some details that I was still fuzzy on, thanks all.

adssse, are you using a wireless card? I swapped out my Atheros card in favor of a wired D-Link 10/100 card today and the problem doesn't happen any longer. I still don't know exactly why it happened, but it went away when I went "wired."
I think you are right, SomeGuyWithDSL.  I have the same problem when using my laptop with wireless but I don't when wired.  However I put up with it because I can set in my recliner (where there is no convenient way to go wired) and use my laptop.  ':D'
Hmm I have this symptom on both my laptop (wireless) and my old desktop (wired). When I pick a category, such as net, wmnet shows just a little bit of net activity for a second and than... nothing. Like I said at this point I usually just kill it and relaunch without problems.
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