Help with * NETLOADMODULE Thread last updated on 2004-01-23 03:23:53

Posted by member 64470 on 2004-01-22 01:30:14

I have an old laptop that I'm trying to run LS on. It's not connected to the net and doesn't have a modem. I'm burning CDs with the files and themes to get it up and running. However, with new OTS2, everytime I install a theme it tries to load them off the net. I have almost every module ever on a CD i burned. I put most .dll's requested by the themes into both the litestep master dir, the module dir, and the theme dir. However, it can't find these modules and trys to net load them. If anyone could let me know if I'm putting the mods in the wrong directories or find a way around net load. THANKS GUYS!

Posted by member 7 on 2004-01-22 04:51:05 link

By default (if you used Omar's LS Installer that is) NLM looks in litestep\modules directory for modules that are already installed. If you want to install them manually you should put the DLLs in there. Note however that you'll need to append the version numbers to the filenames (icondesk-0.68.dll instead of icondesk.dll for example).

A much more convenient solution is to use this:
NetLoadModuleZipPath FOLDER
This sets the path where NetLoadModule saves the zip files that it downloads. The default is to not save them. NetLoadModule will also look for archives here before downloading them, so if you just delete the module, it will be installed from the local copy. If the folder does not exist, it will be created.

This only works if you have the original .zip files of course, the DLLs alone won't be enough. Check the HTML file in "litestep\NLM" for details.

Posted by member 99 on 2004-01-23 03:23:53 link

and if you're too lazy to do that, you can right click on the modules in the download dialog and tell it where the dll is. Be careful with that though, it's easy to bypass the version number and if you tell it to use something incompatible, it will try.