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

When I try a new distro, I swap out my primary Windows drive (250Gb SATA) and drop in one of the spares (usually an 80Gb IDE) so, if something corrupts fatally, my primary drive wasn't even connected & didn't lose a thing.

I'll be dropping DSL to a spare drive, just to see how well it runs "like a normally installed OS".

I'm currently printing out the PDF's from the Doc repository, and burning DSL in the background, so as soon as those are done, I'll shut this box down, swap drives, and reboot.

If it runs half as well as everyone's claiming, my Windows drive is gonna gather dust. :cool:

I still do hd-installs of DSL because i like to be able to edit all the folders, and overwrite the things i want to overwrite.

You cannot install DSL as a "Traditional Hard Drive Install" to a SATA hard drive because the latest version of DSL does not have SATA disk controller drivers.

However, you can download DSL version 2.1b and then boot with this command:

dsl sata

and then you can do a frugal install or a poorman's install to your SATA drive.

Or you could give the DSL-N a try. It is based on a newer kernel that includes SATA support.

Having read portions of this very long thread, and read the frugal_install.sh script, unless a key problem for me is solved I will be going with the hd install. I have a family of 4 other computer users. We have five computers and the hd install allows for multiuser. I expect that each of them will be fiddling and will need to at least separate their access to the file server.

Cheers Paul

ps - great product. It took me all of 4 hours to customize leaving out the day or so getting my fuji-xerox custom GDI print drivers going. FX supplied an RPM that wouldn't run on DSL. Had to install by hand.

Frugal allows for a multiuser system. It's just not something that is provided as an install option because it adds a level of complexity to frugal/livecd which may cause problems for added users. Basically, both the myDSL and backup/restore system (and possibly one or two other things) would need to be rewritten if you have any hopes of giving your new users the same abilities as user dsl....new users will not be able to install mydsl packages, and the backup is controlled by user dsl.

It is possible to have multiple users in DSL, however. I do this, in a way, on my box. I don't actually have any added users because i'm the only one using the machine, but i can run multiple sessions and could add users if i felt the need to do so.

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