Other Help Topics :: Settings not saved or restored
Having heroically worked out how to configure the web proxy settings, connect to the net via my LAN and connect to my LAN printer (with the generous help of posters on this board), I now find I can't seem to save my settings, despite hours of searching on this board and the web and various experiments.
Here are the steps I am trying in detail in as far as I am able to determine these - I've put questions in square brackets to make my depraved confusion explicit and all the more humiliating:
1. Open a shell Type " sudo su " to become root Type " cd /opt " Type " scite bootlocal.sh "
Enter the following lines in bootlocal.sh and save, substituting the appropriate numbers for expressions between apostrophes:
[But where does nameserver go (is there a resolve.conf as for Red Hat?)? Where are the 'MyLANPrintersName' settings that I made and how are these backed up?]
2. Open filetool.lst and ensure that the following lines are present so that bootlocal will load the internet connection details and dillo & wgetrc load the web proxy address:
3. Save filetool.lst to the backup media eg floppy.
[Why do posters say this and not just hit the backup function to floppy doesn't make sennse - what is the point of the backup.tar.gz created by the backup/restore function if we don't use it? Also - where is bootlocal.sh backed up?].
4. Re-boot via F2 options > select dsl restore={floppy}.
And it doesn't work.
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i have no experianvce on LANprinters only the printer from dsl
2. right.
3. you have two options: a. do a manual backup ( use the backup-button) b. have an automatic backup at shutdown( add /opt/shutdown.sh to the filetool.lst, remove the # infront of the line: filetool.sh backup noprompt) all files named in filetool.lst are packed into the file backup.tar.gz on the device you selected for backup.
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dsl restore={floppy}
i think you should use restore=floppy ( no spaces, no brackets)Another possible issue,
My backup.tar.gz is over 100MB in size.. restore=floppy just won't work for me ever.. ( or just "restore", since the floppy is the default unless you entered another location in your startup string )
Backups during shutdown should be automatic/default since DSL 0.8
73 ke4ntAutomatic backups was not true for my DSL 0.8.1.1 USB poorman's install.
In order to activate automatic backups I needed to type:
sudo scite /opt/powerdown.sh
and remove the "#" at the beginning of the filetool line.
From then on it worked fine.Yep, your right..
I must have been carrying over an edited version of powerdown.sh thru versions inside my backup.tar.gz ..
