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Frugal install is to run DSL as a compressed image copied to a hard drive. Some people have been doing things like this but usually they end up with a boot floppy. Since, I don't like boot floppies, I made this script to install compressed image with lilo. It requires a very small partition (60MB) versus the regular hard drive install (200MB). You can optionally specify many of the "boot time" shortcuts to include automatically. You can specify where the backup/restore is located. So basically it is a partition of the hard drive appearing as the cdrom but with your custom boot time options. It must be run from a currently running liveCD.
So now we have an option for those systems that have no cdrom and no floppy and a small hd say like 80MB, you could physically move the hard drive to a more capable system. Boot up the liveCD make your partitions, root, swap, and data and then do a frugal install. Now move the hd back to the old computer and you are ready to go, no boot floppy required.
You could also use this to make a small custom server.
Robert,
Thank you for the info on frugal install. This sounds exactly like what I have been looking for to run my streaming audio server on. Is the command, "frugal install" to start the script?
Thanks again for all your hard work on this project.
Joel
John,
When I run pppconfig, I answer all the questions, and my modem is not detected. This has happened on two machines that have modems that do work with 0.5.3.1. On the box that I am on now, it works in kppp with Redhat 9. But, I have had no success getting the modem set up in 0.6 on this box.
I am able, however, to copy the wvdial files to a floppy, and install them in
a running 0.6, and setup my filetool.lst to put 'em in the tarball for next time.
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I would think that with the winmodem problem, it would be to our advantage to have as many modems detected as possible. I paid over
$70.00 for one of the modems, and on a laptop, $230.00 for the other, a pcmcia.
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I hear that Quest is offering "naked broadband" a Digital Subscriber Line without a land-line phone. This trend might well spread throughout the industry.
I don't know, but I read a post here (somewhere) that Damnsmall would detect a broadband connection without much, if any, setup.
This is the coming thing, but lots of us still use dial-up, especially on older
boxes or home-builts (mine) that are hard to fit with the new broadband equipment.
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roberts,
I'm going to try the frugal install. Right now, I have three hard drives in this box, and have Windows 98 on one, with /knoppix and filetool.sh there. On another drive I have a small partition with backup.tar.gz and filetool.lst.
I have to use the boot floppy, or put DSL in the cdrom drive, and use
knoppix restore=/dev/hdb2 at boot time. I have Redhat 9 on another drive, and have the grub bootloader on the Windows drive.
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I'm wondering if I could get the grub bootloader to pick up the Damnsmall frugal install setup somehow, so I would just have one boot manager.
I'll have to work with that. Can always fall back on the floppy.
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I've set up lots of hard drives using big boxes, then placed them, ready to go, in a little box of some sort, and with a little config of /etc/fstab, or X, I'm ready to go. Also had nice Debian setups that were copied to
drives to install in machines. (To much trouble to go thru the Debian
installation process on _every_ machine, especially if one has to
apt-get install kde
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Rapidweather,
If I recall, the 0.5.+ versions for dial-up ppp had the user do three things. One was to make a link to the modem from /dev/
to /dev/modem. Then the user was put into a vi screens to manailly enter information.
With pppconfig which is a standard debian package, my modem is not automatically detected either, but I get a list to choose from. I happen to select /dev/ttyS1 and then it works. So, my question is what are you selecting and after you run pppconfig take a look at /dev/modem what is it pointing to, and what does it display on the older version?
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