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



Quote (mikshaw @ Aug. 10 2004,18:50)
Is this what it wants?
libXrandr

Yes sir! it wants libXrandr
Quote (mpie @ Aug. 11 2004,07:02)
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.......

Ok, thanks I'll try today when return home
I've asked (and obtained good answers) about Thunderbird..but what about making persistent home like Knoppix does? Is that possible? The idea is how to increase user space (adding RAM is not very cheap at least in this country)
gui: im not sure, but you could probably partition an area on the hard drive for dsl. do you have anything else running on the hd (win?) if so, you probably want to ask someone else because im not daring enough to bother with it. after you make a partition, you would be able to mount it and save any data you want. i'm guessing this is what you mean by a /home/dsl
Quote (DonttPanic @ Aug. 12 2004,18:05)
gui: im not sure, but you could probably partition an area on the hard drive for dsl. do you have anything else running on the hd (win?) if so, you probably want to ask someone else because im not daring enough to bother with it. after you make a partition, you would be able to mount it and save any data you want. i'm guessing this is what you mean by a /home/dsl

See: when you use Knoppix from cd (or poors man installation) you can choose to have the /home anywhere you want You tells Knoppix and it shows you all partitios (fat vfat ext etc etc) you choose one and then Knoppix ask you for size or entire partition and then makes a file knoppix.ext which is opened and use as /home when Knoppix load (with all of your stuff there) The advantage of this is you do not waste your ram disk with suff. I know I can HD-Install but I prefer to use DSL from CD or RAM or poors man installation
mmmm perhaps if I can 'touch' fstab and assign some partition to /home could work...lets see I'm not very experimented..I've used it with Debian and works but here hmmmm
If I can obtain any good result I'll post here
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