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Posted: April 05 2007,12:54 QUOTE

Hmmm...   Yes...  This be a traditional install.  I basically just went to the menu option for "install to HD" from the live CD.  It seemed like a good idea at the time.  And, actually, from what I'm seeing here, it's STILL a good idea.
We're talking about a machine with 64mb RAM.  If I were running DSL with the primary system being a 93mb file unpacked into RAM, it wouldn't run much better than it did off the CD.  As it is, it runs FAST.  I mean FAST to the extent that it comes damn close to my work laptop (P4, 2.5g, 512MB, XP).  That in itself is impressive.

Like I said...  The system is running awesome, except for this pesky USB key issue.

It's not like I'm a N00b with Linux in general.  I'm totally comfortable with much of it.  I spent the last year working tech support for digital broadcast servers running Red Hat 4.  That got me pretty well up to speed with the power of Bash, and all the fun stuff that can be done without a GUI.  It's one of the reasons that I'm so comfortable with the lack of GUI on much of DSL.

If there is some sort of patch that I could apply, without having to go through every friggin file from the RC4 release, that would be great.

Any ideas?
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Posted: April 05 2007,15:19 QUOTE

Thought I replied to this earlier this morning. Meant to anyway. If I were in your shoes, I would make a tarball of /home and either save to USB (if you can mount it, heh) or burn it to CD (or copy to another partition if you have one) and then reinstall DSL-N and restore what you want from your old /home. It doesn't make much sense using the change log and hoping you manage to get it all right.

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Posted: April 05 2007,17:34 QUOTE

It ain't just the home directory though...  I've installed a few apps, and got them working...  I installed PHP support for Monkey (well, that was easy)...  A few other things.

I can back up the entire drive pretty easily.  I could just copy it across the network to one of my other machines...  
But I still can't see taking a chance on blowing up the whole system simply because I'm having trouble with USB support.

If I really need to get files on an off the machine, I can always use another machine to mount the USB and simply SCP it to the laptop.  It's an extra step, but it's better than starting over.

More than anything, I'm kind of surprised that more people don't have a traditional install like mine.  It runs awesome like that...
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