Looks like there is something broken in DSS lite regarding.

I just changed the harddisk from a 8.4GB model to a 20GB model and kept everything else identical and things started to work.

units is available and even my config issues (other thread) are no solved.

With the new drive and the new USB stick all config is now gone.

Looks like the system did find the 8.4GB drive, even stored the config on the drive, but did not present it in the gui...

With the 20gb model everything is working as expected.

BTW, the 8.4GB drive had some invalid partition table entries from previous other tests. This could be the cause of the problem. But i would expect DSS to be able to utilize a drive regardless of any prior data content.