HD Install :: Seriously lost in grub

Quote (mikshaw @ Aug. 31 2007,17:30)

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Are there advantages to backing up to the frugal partition?

Not really, unless you have very limited space elsewhere. I'd say there is at least one _disadvantage_ to using the boot partition to backup. This is that the boot partition must be ext2 (or ext3, which is actually still mounted as ext2). The ext2 filesystem is somewhat flaky when compared to a journalling filesystem such as ext3 or reiserfs, and it needs regular fscking, if you write to it a lot, to prevent data corruption.

Not recommended on a mounted disk!

Quote (dslrgm @ Aug. 31 2007,02:17)

what about your comment about Torsmo v0.18? I don't see me making the changes mentioned....

Torsmo v0.17 only allows battery names in the acpi directory of the style BAT0, BAT1, BAT3,..... The battery in the libretto shows up as MBAT. Tosrmo v0.18 allows the directory name to be changed to match this. I have a compiled version of v0.18 I keep meaning to submit as a unc extension. Compiling the source from Sourceforge is straightforward with the gcc1-with-libs extension.

If you arleady have it compiled and tested, email to me and I will update the base. I can use the help.

Quote (roberts @ Sep. 02 2007,20:31)

If you arleady have it compiled and tested, email to me and I will update the base. I can use the help.

Yes, please add it to mydsl.

the 0.17 is in the systems folder, I seem to recall.

original here.