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dsl boots on my lexar 1g usb secure stick fine but how do i make it useful?

i want to access my secure portion of my usb stick but lexar says no can do.
i want to write to ntfs is there a kernel that will allow that?
can i use red hat drivers and how do i do this?
how do use emelfm in root? what's the password? i never set a root password.
thanks

brendan

Quote (bmacint @ June 12 2005,15:18)

dsl boots on my lexar 1g usb secure stick fine but how do i make it useful?

Use it to browse the net, do work, whatever. DSL is an operating system. It's as useful as you make it.

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i want to access my secure portion of my usb stick but lexar says no can do.

If you are using the Lexar encryption program, then they are right. Linux cannot use it.

If you just want to keep your files secure, use the secure mode (dsl secure at the boot prompt) to encrypt your files that you back up.

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i want to write to ntfs is there a kernel that will allow that?

Not with DSL. Captive NTFS is much to large to fit in the 50mb limit.

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can i use red hat drivers and how do i do this?

You can try to use Alien to convert them to .debs. but they still might not work if they were compiled with an incomptible kernel.

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how do use emelfm in root? what's the password? i never set a root password.

In the menu, Apps >> Tools >> Emelfm >> Emelfm as root

-J.P.

Lexar makes a linux interface for their encryption software, but I am unsure if it would work with the DSL kernel.

Your better bet is to use an encryption method that is supported by multiple operating systems like linux and windows. I am sure there must be one out there. I would search freshmeat for such a program.

correction..

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If you just want to keep your files secure, use the secure mode (dsl secure at the boot prompt) to encrypt your files that you back up.

I think the boot option for encryption is " protect " ,
and not " secure " ..

secure is for creating passwords at boottime for userdsl and root.
protect is for triple des encryption of the backup.tar.gz

73
ke4nt

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