User Feedback :: Why do I still do regular HD installs of DSL?



I have tried doing a frugal install following Clivesay and Magicpio's instructions a couple of times.  No matter what I seem to do, DSL doesn't look in the hda partition I said it should be (hda3) with the rest of my data.  In only finds it if it is in the images partition (hda1).  hda2 is a swap partition.  Any ideas how i can fix this without doing a complete reinstall?
You might be able to get it to work if you edit your lilo.conf and add the following to your append statement:

fromhd=/dev/hda3

and then rerun lilo to activate the changes.
This was a really usefull thread for me! Thanks to everyone for the great advice!

I have now made a new attempt of a frugal install to my old laptop. Earlier attempts have not been all that successfull, and I believed it was due to low RAM on the laptop (56MB). Motivated by the comment Chris made about successful frugal installs on a computer with 133Mhz and 32MB RAM, I decided to give it another go. I followed the instructions presented in the pdf that Chris submitted in this thread, and I am very happy about the result! I didn't know about the home=hdax opt=hdax boot options, but I guess they do wonders on low ram systems?!

I have tried to install some dsl apps just to test my new system. Some succeeds and some fails. It seems to me that apps that are marked red (and yellow) in the repositories, i.e. apps that do not load into /opt only are problematic on my low-ram system. At least the larger apps are. Do any of you other guys, who have used frugal on systems with low RAM, experienced anything similar? Are there any workarounds? I guess the .uci apps are better for my system, but I haven't tried them yet.

Thanks again to everyone!

-r
I am really impressed by the power of frugal install! Consider me a complete convert!

I have played around with my new frugal install for the past couple of days now. Old laptop, 56MB RAM and everything works like charm. I cannot get all the applications to work, simply because there isn't enough RAM-space, but the system as such is fast and beautiful. I followed the advice of creating persistant /home and /opt directories on the hard disk drive, and this has worked out perfectly. My hd is 6GB in total. I have some space for swap (about 300MB), some space for the dsl iso (600MB or so, because I considered the possibility of having several parallell versions in the future, if possible), and the rest for /home and /opt. So I have 5GB for my documents and files!!! Great :-)

I have also discovered the beauty of .uci extensions. They are truly great!!! Even a large app like openoffice.uci works. It is mounted in a second, but the startup of the applications (like Writer) takes a while of course (no longer than on hd-installs I have tried on the same machine though!), but once started, it works quite well. Impressive!!! I have also tried qcad (the .uci), which is also quite large an app, and this works perfectly. Even quite fast! I must get more of those .uci's!!! I guess the next project will be for me to learn how to make them!

Thanks to everyone! Great thing about Linux (and DSL) is that there's always lots of new stuff to learn (which I consider a really good thing!).

:-)

-r
reider -

Great to hear! It is very flexible and there will continue to be even more flexibility in the future. You tweaked my interest saying you ran OpenOffice in 56mb ram + swap! What is the processor on this old laptop?

Ke4nt recently added more uci's to the testing area so check them out.

Chris

BTW - I see some people listen to their mom.  :)  That's not a bad thing!
Next Page...
original here.