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I have installed dsl on a 512 flash drive. I installed it to a blank flash drive and then syslinux'ed it. I tried booting and it worked great. I then added a "my storage" folder so i could still save misc. stuff. I tried mounting everydrive(just in case i missed sumptin) while i was in dsl and never seen the actual files as they are on my drive. how do i navigate to the usb drive so i can view my storage folder. thanks in advance.
I already had that folder on the drive when i syslinux'ed it in windows. I just wanted it there so when created a document, i could just save it in that folder but i will try that and let you know if it works. Thanks for the reply
ok, let me walk through step by step what I did. I had a 256mb flash drive which I used for misc things. I then decided i wanted to put DSL on it cause it seemed very interesting. So I deleted every folder on the drive EXCEPT my storage folder. I then downloaded the DSL files and then proceeded as instructed to install DSL on the flash drive. The filesystem is fat32 so when i plug in on a windows machine, I see ALL the files and folders the DSL put on but I ALSO see my original "my storage folder" that was on it b4 I installed DSL. I then restarted my computer and booted of the flash drive. I got to the desktop and was trying to mount the flash drive so I could navigate to "my stoarge folder" so I could save stuff but while examinening the file structure on the flash drive all I can see are the normal linux folders like, home, bin, mnt and so on. So my question is if there is a way to get acess to that folder("my storage" folder)? And I have done it on 2 different flash drives and same thing occurs. I hope that makes it alittle more clear but Im sorry for the confusion.
... I see ALL the files and folders the DSL put on but I ALSO see my original "my storage folder" ...
So, you have verified that your "my storage folder" survived the DSL install.
Now the big Q: When you look at the USB drive this way, what do you see at the top level? Perhaps 2 folders? 1 called "my storage folder", & the other called something like "DSL"?
On the other hand, when you boot DSL you don't see the folder that holds DSL, do you? Just its contents as the root (/) directory, right?
If these guesses of mine are correct, then you probably need to move "my storage folder" inside the DSL folder when DSL isn't booted, you could also create a link (Lin) or shortcut (Win) where the full folder used to be.
I hope this will solve your problem, if you want to "untie the knot", then before you fix the problem, boot DSL & post the output from fdisk -l.
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