Slacko HDD name causes Deadbeef playlist problem

[olddog]

Recently I swapped my music computer (a 64 bit Thinkpad T61) for an older 32 bit machine (TP T42). I have described elsewhere my difficulties trying to install Xenialpup 32 on the latter computer. The earlier one had Xenial 64, and I like Xenial.

Having given up on Xenial for the moment I installed Slacko. Everything was fine except that my (prodigious multitude of) Deadbeef playlists no longer work.

I suspect it is because Xenial refers to my HDD as mnt/SDA1, whereas Slacko calls it mnt/home.

Is there a way to bring Slacko into line with Xenial (and logic!)?

Thanks.

[musher0]

Hi olddog.

Open a console anywhere and type (or copy and paste) the following
one-liner:

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mkdir -p /mnt/sda1;mount -t "`probepart | grep sda1 | awk -F"|" '{ print $2 }'`" /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

I had a similar problem in my Puduan-7, and the above line solved it.

Keep me posted?

IHTH

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In script form:

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#!/bin/ash
# /opt/local/bin/monte-sda1.sh
#
# Objectif : monter /mnt/sda1, même si /mnt/home est monté.
# Goal: mount /mnt/sda1, even if /mnt/home is mounted.
#
# En réponse à une question d'« olddog » sur le forum Puppy. / 
# Answering a question by Puppy forum member "olddog".
#
# (c) musher0, April 7, 2019. GPL3.
####
[ -d /mnt/sda1 ] || mkdir -p /mnt/sda1
[ "`ls -1 /mnt/sda1`" != "" ] || mount -t "`probepart | grep sda1 | awk -F"|" '{ print $2 }'`" /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

This script does the same thing as the one-liner, but checks first.

Enjoy!

[olddog]

Merci beaucoup.

I am off to the zoo today and will try this tonight.

Hi olddog.

Open a console anywhere and type (or copy and paste) the following
one-liner:

Code: Select all

mkdir -p /mnt/sda1;mount -t "`probepart | grep sda1 | awk -F"|" '{ print $2 }'`" /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

I had a similar problem in my Puduan-7, and the above line solved it.

Keep me posted?

IHTH

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In script form:

Code: Select all

#!/bin/ash
# /opt/local/bin/monte-sda1.sh
#
# Objectif : monter /mnt/sda1, même si /mnt/home est monté.
# Goal: mount /mnt/sda1, even if /mnt/home is mounted.
#
# En réponse à une question d'« olddog » sur le forum Puppy. / 
# Answering a question by Puppy forum member "olddog".
#
# (c) musher0, April 7, 2019. GPL3.
####
[ -d /mnt/sda1 ] || mkdir -p /mnt/sda1
[ "`ls -1 /mnt/sda1`" != "" ] || mount -t "`probepart | grep sda1 | awk -F"|" '{ print $2 }'`" /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

This script does the same thing as the one-liner, but checks first.

Enjoy!

[olddog]

BTW, what's the easiest way to paste into the terminal?

[musher0]

Highlight the text here, then do a Cntrl-C. In the terminal, paste with a
middle-click or with Shift-Insert. Simple as pie!

[olddog]

Sadly, this didn't work.

One possible reason is that when I boot Slacko, the hard drive appears already mounted, and I am unable to unmount it.

Not sure why.

Highlight the text here, then do a Cntrl-C. In the terminal, paste with a
middle-click or with Shift-Insert. Simple as pie!

[mostly_lurking]

You didn't say which Slacko version you are using; I've checked the 32bit version of Slacko 6.3.2, (loaded from CD with a savefile on HDD) and /mnt/home is a symlink to /initrd/mnt/dev_save, which is effectively the sda1 partition (and which is named "sda1" on the desktop).

Creating a "/mnt/sda1" symlink to /mnt/home, or to /initrd/mnt/dev_save, seemed to do the trick (making files accessible by using a /mnt/sda1/... path). Does anyone know if such a setup is okay or if it might cause problems?

PS: about copying text to the terminal: Ctrl+C does nothing - the terminal pastes from the selection buffer, not from the clipboard, unless you have one of those fancy terminals that actually support clipboard actions. The text must be "freshly" highlighted to be in the selection buffer - select text in one program, then immediately switch to the terminal to paste it as musher0 described. I found that too much switching between different programs between highlighting and pasting (and, of course, selecting things in other programs) makes it not work anymore.

[olddog]

I was using Slacko 6.3.2, but have now reverted to using a T61 with Xenial.

When I am less busy I will endeavour once more to load Xenial on the T42.

Thanks for the info re copying to terminal. I think I have mastered it!

You didn't say which Slacko version you are using; I've checked the 32bit version of Slacko 6.3.2, (loaded from CD with a savefile on HDD) and /mnt/home is a symlink to /initrd/mnt/dev_save, which is effectively the sda1 partition (and which is named "sda1" on the desktop).

Creating a "/mnt/sda1" symlink to /mnt/home, or to /initrd/mnt/dev_save, seemed to do the trick (making files accessible by using a /mnt/sda1/... path). Does anyone know if such a setup is okay or if it might cause problems?

PS: about copying text to the terminal: Ctrl+C does nothing - the terminal pastes from the selection buffer, not from the clipboard, unless you have one of those fancy terminals that actually support clipboard actions. The text must be "freshly" highlighted to be in the selection buffer - select text in one program, then immediately switch to the terminal to paste it as musher0 described. I found that too much switching between different programs between highlighting and pasting (and, of course, selecting things in other programs) makes it not work anymore.