DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Making DSL a little easier

Roberts - I appreciate you have to keep things down in size. I should probably be less impatient and open one MyDSL download window at a time! Sometimes with a big download one wants to download something else simulaneously....that's all. I'm not sure what the answer is...for every download it requires 2 or 3 clicks...sometimes I get a bit impatient.

It did take me a while to learn how to open the contents of my USB stick....I'd saved lots of extensions in there. But as a newbie I didn't realise I had to click on 'mnt' 'sda1' to open my usb stick!. A little icon on the desktop would make things that much easier....I do appreciate there are other distros out there if you want 'easier' but it's just a comment....

One thing I didn't get was I'd saved extensions onto my USB stick. I wanted to run these from the file manager emelfm...but when I do it's saying I must run them as 'DSL' in the little window below. So then I tried to hunt down how to achieve this. If there was a way of just clicking on it and it running - that would be so much easier. Just food for thought.

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If there was a way of just clicking on it and it running - that would be so much easier. Just food for thought.

Yes - make a directory /mydsl in the root directory of the USB stick you boot from and put the extensions you would like to load automatically at boot in it. Put any other extensions in /mydsl/optional - you can then load them from the right-click menu at any time after DSL has booted.

Thanks Juanito. Unfortunately I can't get my PC to boot from USB ( I boot from CD )...I'll try that tonight.

Thanks for all your patience everyone.

If you don't boot from usb, you can use the cheatcode "mydsl=sda1" to achieve the same effect.

Also, there has been some users who have created their own icons for mounting/opening. I'm not sure if anyone has implemented automount back, though.

Wow that's incredibly useful (mydsl=sda1). Thanks!

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