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That's what filetool.lst is for.
You just need to have a partition available somewhere on which to save the backup...it could be a harddrive, key, floppy, whatever, just as long as it's readable and writeable.
Quote (mikshaw @ Jan. 14 2005,10:22)
That's what filetool.lst is for.
You just need to have a partition available somewhere on which to save the backup...it could be a harddrive, key, floppy, whatever, just as long as it's readable and writeable.

I know. But what i want to do is to add this to the CD and burn. Since I can only write to the root and optional partitions, how can i do this? Can i put in a .firefox_plugins directory into the root partition on the CD and modify and save the filetool.list to look there on bootup?

Can i do this with my bookmarks? Then when I boot with my live CD I will have all the bookmarks i commonly use available to me. BTW the index.html file in 0.9.2 says that the bookmarks are saved in /home/dsl/.phoenix . There is no such directory. Where are the bookmrks stored?

If these can be done easily, like we can add .dsl .uci by just writing to the CD and have them available on bootup, we can use the live CD without the need to depend on any other device to store them.

The DSL boast is that you can have your own configured live CD without remastering, right?

I think if these few configurations can be added in this simple way, any newbie to linux can potentially create his own live CD with just a CD burner.

Don't you agree?
the backup.tar.gz file which is typically created during the backup process can be placed in the root of the CD.  When you boot up it will automatically extract into the proper directories, as long as the archive was created with paths intact.

Anything in $HOME can be put in filetool.lst as well.
/home/dsl/.phoenix is a hidden directory (note the dot), so you may need to unhide hidden files in order to see it in a file manager.
Don't put "the" backup.tar.gz on the root of the cdrom, as the autosave/restore will then try to write to it.

I guess it has been forgotten, so, I will post it once again.  You can rename the backup.tar.gz to something else, e.g., myconf.tar.gz.

You can slim the contents down to whatever you like, or add more, it is not truly a backup but your personalized configurations, bookmarks, printer setup, mail setup, ppp setup, etc.  Then use the backup featrure for those files that are changing between boots. It is up to you.

Then using mkmydsl script, you can make your custom DSL, with the features that you like, no remastering required. If your machine has a burner and DSL boots, then it is very easy.

For example, after I am finished with a release, I run mkmydsl and place myconf.tar.gz and the "toram" option to make my daily use mydsl.iso
You can also add as many extensions and optionals depending on the size of your cdrom or dvd, or specialized use.

DSL was desinged to be highly configurable.
In fact the mydsl system and mkmydsl which were released back in april 04 were from the beginning designed to make custom myDSL cd.
The loading extensions on demand were implemented a month later.
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Don't put "the" backup.tar.gz on the root of the cdrom, as the autosave/restore will then try to write to it.

oh yeah...I forgot about that.  I disabled the auto backup thingy in powerdown.sh so I can create by backups manually.
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