HD Install :: Why Do an HD install ?

Quote (cbinusa @ April 05 2006,00:49)

I can run DSL in ram but if I lose power or need to reboot, I lose all the work the box has done on that particular work unit. Some work units take several days to run. Installing to HD protects against this loss. DSL still seems to run mostly in RAM. The boxes do not have recordable CD drives. Is there a better way to do this besides install to HD?

If all data is saved in /home and/or /opt I recommend you do a frugal install with a persistent /home and /opt directories. This means that /home and /opt are actually on a partition and not part of ramdisk. On the DSL download mirrors there is a 'pdfdocs' folder that contains some howtos for DSL. Check out the one on frugal installs.

Good luck

Chris

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