DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: DSL 'Persistent home' and swapp file



I like DSL because it starts easy so you can have a nice linux distro working in a few minutes And then you can grow-up by adding dsl applications and/or installing to HD etc etc I've found some problems with HD installation (some applications do not works at all: Mozilla-thunerbird is one of them I apt-get install,all seems to be ok and whan I want use it some library is not present...So...I prefer still using Live CD I can not broken anything lol I'm guessing if is it possible as Knoppix does to 'make a persistent' copy of /home/dsl so you are not so limited by ramdisk size and...if possible make a swapp file just Knoppix does I like DSL's filetool.list backup/restore and myDsl loading And I thinkg If you can do a persistent size variable /home/dsl should be great! And please!! include Mozilla-Thunderbird as an .dsl or better an .ci file!
Tks!
you can succesfully apt-get it from.......
am unable to comfirm the place at the moment
( I will post it when i am home and have full resources)
search apt

what you need to do is  uncomment the unstable and comment out the stable  from apt-sources list
add the above  then apt get update them get the thunderbirs pack,
I am succesfully running 0.7.3 daily with no errors....
Quote (mpie @ Aug. 10 2004,12:04)
you can succesfully apt-get it from.......
am unable to comfirm the place at the moment
( I will post it when i am home and have full resources)
search apt

what you need to do is  uncomment the unstable and comment out the stable  from apt-sources list
add the above  then apt get update them get the thunderbirs pack,
I am succesfully running 0.7.3 daily with no errors....

I did it! and I get an error! Later when I return home I'll do it again and tell you what it said mmm.......I remember some ??Xandr??? could be that name? or ???xandr???
I uncomment lines you said and edit another apt.??? and changed 'stable' for 'testing'
Then I apt-ge install mozilla-thunderbird the download and installation is ok but when I wanna run it ....sais that has not the ???andr???.lib
Later I send you the entire message!
Is this what it wants?
libXrandr
OK so this is how i do it.......
enable synaptic
add these mirrors to the sources list
deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
 src-deb http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free
uncomment unstable in sources list
run apt-get update
open synaptic scroll down to mozilla thunderbird
they have several options including language packs
select the one you want click install
synaptic will pick up all dependancies
the download is about 70MB in total.........
takes time when all files are down it will start installing after prompting you about font managment.....
I pass to deforma for simplicity
good luck.......
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