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Hi,

After getting ADSL I thought I'd give Linux a try (instead of stuffing around getting my winmodem to work).  I loaded up DSL 0.8.2 fine, the only problem I have so far is mounting a WD 160gb drive in a USB2 3.5" NewMotion Drive Enclosure.  It is formatted as a fat32 drive (I got it when I was still using Win98), it's plugged in via a 4-port USB2 PCI Card.

My computer:
IBM Aptiva 2170-24a
AMD K6-2 550 w/ Spire WhisperRock IV fan
Acer V75M Motherboard
2x256 PC133 SDRAM
Maxtor 6.1gb HDD (NTFS with 3 partitions /hdc1 /hdc5 and /hdc6 )
Logitech Cordless MX Duo
14" IBM G51 Monitor

Also, is there anyway I can boot up DSL without setting up X each time? I need to set it to 800x600 , 16-bit, ps/2 mouse and I want to download and run Firefox aswell.

Thanks.

D.
For the hard drive, try installing the usbview myDSL extension to learn more information about your hard drive connection.

If your drive is "Mass Storage Compliant" and it is plugged into the laptop and turned on before you start booting DSL, it should be automatically detected.

Open up the emelfm file manager and go to the "/mnt" directory.  Do you have a mountpoint like "sda1" or "sdb1" there?

If so, Right-click on the "sda1" and choose "Mount" and your hard drive files and directories will appear.

As for the Xsetup process, please read up on the DSL backup/restore function.  You can use it to save your Xsetup settings to a storage device like a floppy, non-NTFS hard drive partition or a USB flash memory storage device.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Oct. 16 2004,13:48)
For the hard drive, try installing the usbview myDSL extension to learn more information about your hard drive connection.

If your drive is "Mass Storage Compliant" and it is plugged into the laptop and turned on before you start booting DSL, it should be automatically detected.

Open up the emelfm file manager and go to the "/mnt" directory.  Do you have a mountpoint like "sda1" or "sdb1" there?

If so, Right-click on the "sda1" and choose "Mount" and your hard drive files and directories will appear.

As for the Xsetup process, please read up on the DSL backup/restore function.  You can use it to save your Xsetup settings to a storage device like a floppy, non-NTFS hard drive partition or a USB flash memory storage device.

I've opened up the myDSL link on the desktop aswell as gone to the repositry link on the front page of the DSL homepage and I can't find the usbview myDSL extension anywhere.

My computer is not a laptop.  It's an IBM Aptiva 2170-24a
tower and is micro-ATX.  It's been fully upgraded to pretty much the most I can do to it :-), the fan is designed for 2ghz cpus ;-p.

I did plug in and turn on the power for the USB Enclosure on startup.  I've also tried changing the jumper settings on the drive inside from slave to master.

When I open up emelfm, goto /mnt and right click and try to mount /sda1 , /sda2 , /sda3 or /sda4 I get

/dev/sda1: Input/output error
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

The filesystem on the drive is FAT32.  I once accidentally deleted the file partition table when I installed XP and left the drive on ages ago.  thankfully their is a back up on sector 1 so I replaced it with some app on the XP PRo CD could this be the problem?

Another thing is that my motherboard can't boot USB devices at start up via the BIOS.
The usbview extension is located in the "Testing" area on the web site and is not available by the myDSL icon.

You can download it here:

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub.....tar.gz

If your partition table can be read by Windows XP then it should also be valid for DSL.

original here.