Rapidweather
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Posted: Jan. 24 2004,16:49 |
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That's a good question for us users of the LiveCD.
The usb drive is in /etc/fstab, but you have to get it mounted
to work with it.
First, I formatted my usb drive with:
#mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1 (be root, per below:}
To save to it or restore from it, I mount the usb stick with:
#mount /dev/sda1 -t ext2 /mnt/usbdrive
You have to be root to do that, in a terminal do this:
#sudo su (then you are root in that terminal for as long as it's open)
Then I copied filetool.lst from /home/damnsmall to the usb drive:
#cd /home/damnsmall
#ls -a
The filetool.lst should be in the list
Then:
#cp filetool.lst /mnt/usbdrive
Now the fun begins. Open filetool.lst for editing with "vi":
#cd /mnt/usbdrive
#ls -a
#vi filetool.lst
You have to modify the filetool.lst on the
usbdrive to include everything you want backed up. (and restored, when you do Menu > File Restoration > Restore
(One side note here: Whatever you have running in DSL is what gets packed up in the backup.tar.gz file on the Memory Stick, according to what you have specified in the filetool.lst on the Stick itself)
I have mine working for MozillaFirebird like so:
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.fluxbox
.xtdesktop
/home/damnsmall/.xinitrc
/home/damnsmall/.bash_profile
/opt/xsetup
/opt/ppp
/opt/wvdial.conf
/ramdisk/opt/MozillaFirebird
.phoenix
web.html
web_files
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My wvdial.conf works, MozillaFirebird works, but the
following entrries don't as I start in X-windows (run level 5)
as per the default DSL on livecd.
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/home/damnsmall/.xinitrc
/home/damnsmall/.bash_profile
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those two I am still working with, I believe they work if I
exit Fluxbox, and return with "startx"
As far as the web.html and web_files are concerned, I just
went to:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/web.html
and had MozillaFirebird save that web page locally. It's stored
on the usbdrive, and I use it as the "home page" for Moz. It comes up when Moz is started, before I connect to the Internet with #wvdial &
One additional problem, the XF86Config for DSL does not have mouse setups, that is taken care of when DSL boots. So, when you exit Fluxbox, and return to the GUI with "startx", you do not get the mouse to work.
Everyone with suggestions and comments please lets us hear from you!
I'll get back in here with updates if I find out more. 
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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html
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