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Topic: Problems creating /mydsl (Frugal HD)

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setecio

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Posted: Nov. 16 2006,10:53

Hi

I am using AMD Duron 700MHz, 256MB RAM, 15GB HD,3 4.5GB Linux ext3 partions and 1 1.5GB Linux swap. DSL 3.0.1.

I have installed DSL on hda2 using frugal install and boot up using cheatcode frugal to ensure disc is writable. It is saving my settings fine.

However I cannot grasp this mydsl issue, maybe it is something simple, please help.

I download abiword and get it to run fine. Then I go to shutdown and it says 'unsaved extensions do I want to save'. I click yes and it opens up emelfm in root. I create a new directory /mydsl and then move abiword.dsl from /tmp into this new directory. I then go to reboot and mydsl directory is no longer there, and abiword is gone. I try to download it again this time specifying to /mydsl, but it comes back with an error 'Please mount media containing optional directory'. If I look in Emelfm, /mydsl no longer exists.

Can I not create a directory /mydsl ?

I thought from all my reading that if I created a /mydsl directory and moved my extensions there then DSL will find them there during boot automatically as it looks automatically in / and /mydsl.

How can I permanently create the /mydsl folder and get this to work ? Do I have to create it on a different partion to DSL? I really want it all contained within the same partiton.

I've been trying for 2 days now, but can't grasp this.

Thanks.

I also get eroor messages during boot:
Ext2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended.
Ext3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended.

Can I ignore these or do they mean anything ?

dtf

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Posted: Nov. 16 2006,11:57

Here is how I have my computer setup and it works find althought I am sure others have better configurations.

hda1 - is my boot partition

hda2 is my swap partition (1G)

hda3 is for home, opt and mydsl

In the menu.lst grub file I have a cheat of "mydsl=hda3". I move all my downloaded mydsl extensions to /mnt/hda3 login as root. This works well for me. I do not think you can use root '/' for mydsl so pick a partition other that your boot partition.

I often ignore the e2fsck warning but I am not sure this is recommended. To get rid of this warning you can run e2fsck /dev/hda<whatever>. The partition cannot be mounted when you run this command. The warning will return after so many reboots of your computer. Also I think there is a way to extend the number of boots before the warning returns but I do not remember the command.

mikshaw

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Posted: Nov. 16 2006,14:00

dtf: you can use the root partition for mydsl. It's not the same as "/" in a frugal/embedded/liveCD system.

setecio: you need to use the "root" account to create directories anywhere other than in your home directory. For example:
sudo mkdir /mnt/hda2/mydsl
sudo chown dsl.staff /mnt/hda2/mydsl

The "chown" command gives ownership of the mydsl directory to user dsl so you won't need to be root to add programs.

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setecio

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Posted: Nov. 16 2006,17:48

Thanks for that. The plan is to have Puppy, DSL and win98 on the 3 partitions so I want to keep everything DSL within hda2. At the minute I have Puppy on hda1, DSL on hda 2, nothing on hda3 and hda4 Linux swap.

I'm getting 4 or 5 of these error messages during boot - do they mean anything?
Ext2-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended.
Ext3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended.
and
mounting unchecked fs

Unfortunately, Mikshaw, the same thing happens when I reboot - everything disappears including the whole /mydsl folder, even though it appear after I create it and give ownership to dsl as you describe (only until I reboot, and even if, after creating it, I try to save extensions to it, it gives an error.

'please mount media containing optional dir and try again'

mikshaw

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Posted: Nov. 16 2006,20:26

Where exactly are you creating the directory? If you want it on the same partition as the DSL system, it would be either /mnt/hda2/mydsl OR /cdrom/mydsl. These are both the same location, but /cdrom is already mounted...read-only if you aren't using the "frugal" boot option. /cdrom does not stay mounted, however, if you also use the "toram" boot option. /mnt/hda2 is not automatically mounted, so that's probably why the files disappear when you reboot. /mnt/hda2 has to first be mounted before you add anything to it.

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