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rmcellig · Posted: Tue 17 Apr 2012, 14:12 Post subject:

I just installed a fresh Frugal install (Puppy 5.2. Cool

on my computer. The screenshots will show what I have done so far. I think the only thing left is to create the script which I am not quite sure how to do. Let me know if what I have done so far looks good so that we can proceed onto the script I need to create in my Startup folder.

If at all possible, I would love to make Puppy Linux my main OS. I seem to keep going back to it instead of other Linux distros and even my iMac!

Thanks!!!

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

You seem to have the hidden folder .dropbox in your filesystem tree (/) and also in /root.
Surely it should only appear in /root, probably symlinked from the same location as your Dropbox folder?
My original guess still holds, I suspect dropbox is looking for the .dropbox and Dropbox folders on a partition that is not at that point mounted. Are you loading your frugal install from sda4?

rmcellig · Posted: Tue 17 Apr 2012, 15:33 Post subject:

I am mounting from sda5. I have my .dropbox folder symlinked in my root folder. The actual .dropbox folder is in my / folder.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

rmcellig · Posted: Tue 17 Apr 2012, 15:48 Post subject:

I get ya. What I will do is put a frugal install and the dropbox folder on the same sda partition. I just noticed that sda 7 has over 100GB of free space so I will put everything on this partition to make things simpler.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

rmcellig · Posted: Tue 17 Apr 2012, 16:09 Post subject:

It will definitely keep things simpler. I have 216.72GB of free space for sda5. Tons of room to do a frugal install and create a new Dropbox folder which I will keep out of the Root folder.

I will post back with screen shots of how I have it configured to make sure I have dropbox etc... in the right places, then we can move on to the startup script. This is so fun!!

rmcellig · Posted: Tue 17 Apr 2012, 19:17 Post subject:

So here is my latest update. I formatted a new Puppy Frugal partition ext4 (sda5) which is over 200GB in size. Now I think all I have to do is create that script so Dropbox loads on startup?

rmcellig · Posted: Tue 17 Apr 2012, 19:37 Post subject:

I created a startup file in my Startup folder and although Dropbox now appears on my taskbar, I am still presented with the Dropbox setup window. This is what I have in the file.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3669 Location: UK

rmcellig · Posted: Wed 18 Apr 2012, 16:35 Post subject:

Thanks for the heads up. I will keep an eye on what happens and post back. I have my Dropbox setup pointing to my link to Dropbox instead of the actual Dropbox folder. Should I be pointing to the actual folder instead? Does it matter?

rmcellig · Posted: Fri 20 Apr 2012, 06:25 Post subject:

I think what I will do is just do a full install to a new partition so I can dual boot with other Linux distros and I know that Dropbox works fine in a full install.

Is there a downside to doing a full install? I know it is not as flexible as a frugal install and I would think that a full install is like your typical Linux installation.

jmccoy1 · Joined: 17 Nov 2011 Posts: 4

Hello - I'm using fernan's solution to getting Dropbox to start correctly (except that I put a link to ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd in my Startup folder, rather than a script). I have a question, though: Why does this work? Why does moving the .dropbox folder to /mnt/home change anything?

I'm not sure whether my question is about frugal installs, permissions, symbolic links, Linux, or something else.

Thanks for any help!