User Feedback :: To all the new Frugal installers

Hi, can ya spare a few lines of text for a total frugal noob?

Ok, here's the gist, can I do a frugal install on a CF sitting in my netvista n2200 thin client?

If I can - Great! How the heck do I do it, and are there any guides lurking around?

Finally probably a really dumb question, does a frugal install still give me all the same desktop power of the DSL cd but on the CF card?

I have used's 8636's build of linux with his specifically compiled kernal and that works great - but as a beginner, it doesn't give me the things I was trying to achieve with the box, such as httpd and ftp serving etc. Maybe a splash of VNC and a hint of no-ip d.u.c.

Is it possible to marry this specific kernal with a regular dsl build and install it on the CF?

Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Mark.

Clivesay has put up a great step by step tutorial here: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....wto.pdf

You can install on a compact flash card you but you would not want to use a persistent /home or /opt directories. You would also not want to use a swap as these would all cause high wear on your device. For example, you could set up hda1 for your filesystem and hda2 for mydsl and backup/restore. That way it would look for and load your extension files at boot and backup everything when you shutdown, but would not be writing to the device all the time.

Sorry, not sure that I can help with any of the other questions.

Hi, Thanks for the link, I'll experiment with it and see if I get anywhere.

Regards,
Mark.

Frugal IS great. Which begs the question, why isn't it mentioned whatsoever in the 'getting started' documentation upon booting into DSL?

It seems to me that the time to introduce a user to what a frugal install does is when he's first booting up and possibly deliberating an installation method, not when he's randomly browsing through the dsl forums.

hehe, I agree with you taps!

I'm still not sure 100% what a frugal install actually does that's better or worse than a regular hd install or just running it live from CD.

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