HD Install :: Your partitions

Frugal can have booting & KNOPPIX on the same partition. But exactly, I am using a Hd-install, not frugal. And since I've customized it so far from being DSL, I would have no use in upgrading. It already has everything I want, and an upgrade would need me making all those things again. No thanks ;)

And my modified DSL beats all my friends' XP comps with over 3Ghz horsepower in booting & using!
I like that fact.. Even though this comp was made in -96 (I think..)..

Upgrading frugal is easy, just replace the KNOPPIX file with the newer DSL's KNOPPIX. That's it, all your settings & added programs stay with you..

Code Sample

[ROOT]: fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1458 11711353+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1561 1691 1052257+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 1692 4870 25535317+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1459 1560 819315 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

hda1 = Slackware, on 12gb Reiser file system
hda3 = Persistent home for DSL and a mostly unused Suse system, on 25gb Reiser file system
hda4= multiple frugal DSL versions on 788mb ext2 file system

Upgrading is simple. Boot "toram" and overwrite the KNOPPIX file. In my case, though, I tend to keep two or more KNOPPIX vrsions installed together so if I have problems with a new release I can easily reboot into the previous version. This also allows me to upgrade one DSL system from within another (provided I'm using the "frugal" boot option).

Hey mik, DSL doesn't support reiser. You added something to use reiser on your home partition?

DSL does support reiser, but not as the root file system. I guess the module must be loading at some later point. I've been mounting this same partition in DSL since 0.7.

original here.