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There are two locations of grub's menu.lst.
This might be the cause of the confusion.

There is one off of / which is used for a traditional hard install, which is seen by frugal as read-only and is not used in a frugal environment. This location was used as a template during the frugal install.

For frugal installations the menu.lst is on the partition where you did the frugal install. Under normal, non-toram mode, this partition is mounted at /cdrom (rw)

Typing the mount command will show this fact.

Therefore as user root, or super-user, edit /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst

Note that once you have added and then booted frugal toram the above is no longer true. Again look at the results of the mount command. Your installed partition is no longer mounted under /cdrom instead /cdrom is mounted over /dev/shm

You would then, as user root, first mount the frugally installed partition, lets say it is hda4

# mount /mnt/hda4

then edit the menu.lst located at

/mnt/hda4/boot/grub/menu.lst

Quote (roberts @ Mar. 31 2007,09:15)

There are two locations of grub's menu.lst.
This might be the cause of the confustion.

There is one off of / which is used for a traditional hard install, which is seen by frugal as read-only and is not used in a frugal environment. This location was used as a template during the frugal install.

For frugal installations the menu.lst is on the partition where you did the frugal install. Under normal, non-toram mode, this partition is mounted at /cdrom (rw)

Typing the mount command will show this fact.

Therefore as user root, or super-user, edit /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst

Note that once you have added and then booted frugal toram the above is no longer true. Again look at the results of the mount command. Your installed partition is no longer mounted under /cdrom instead /cdrom is mounted over /dev/shm

You would then, as user root, first mount the frugally installed partition, lets say it is hda4

# mount /mnt/hda4

then edit the menu.lst located at

/mnt/hda4/boot/grub/menu.lst

Hi Roberts,
As we say in Australia -GOOD ONYA MATE!
You gave me the final key which was to open the /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst in Beaver as super user (RT click) and add toram on the first DSL line without #

Thanks to all those helping along the way-you all taught me something.
After my long road to solving this I would like to see a simple step by step that could be referred to in Dillo along with a brief comment on who could benefit from TORAM.Something like this in Dillo:
Those with .....CPU.......Ram......HD -BLA,BLA,BLA.....etc
would benefit from a frugal install with the TORAM option and should go to.....................(I still dont know who benefits from using TORAM)

.HELP SHEET REFERRED TO:
Here a brief dicussion of the pros and cons of grub vs lilo.( Im not sure which is best although Lucky says grub)
If a lilo install is chosen the toram option is included in setup but dont do a grub install first as grub is hard to remove and gets in the way of your lilo install.With this option there is no need to read on.
After doing the frugal grub install, it is possible at EACH boot to edit toram into the boot process by pressing "e" then scroll to end of the line press "e" again and add "toram" at end and press "b"
For a permanent change:
reboot after your frugal install without choosing toram at boot stage.
RT CLICK on Beaver icon and choose the superuser option.
L click on the open file icon
Type-/cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst (THATS a lower case L there )
Up comes the menu ready for you to add toram.
Find the Dsl options and put toram at end of the choice you will be taking at each boot-it must not have # at the beginning of the line.
click file at top left and click on save.
DONE

This is a Newbie style help sheet which could be missing some things but it could be cleaned up and used.
I would like to help those coming after me.
GREG

congrats.

(man i'm so glad i first chose to boot from freedos

)

original here.