HD Install :: Seriously lost in grub



Quote (lucky13 @ Aug. 31 2007,02:46)
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hda1     256Mb  ext2
hda2     256Mb  swap    (I have 64Mb in the Libretto, that is max)
hda3    3583Mb  for all my data and stuff.

Did a frugal install to hda1 from the CD

Why a 256 MB partition for a 50-55 MB ISO?

My understanding is the myDSL stuff you download would end up there.

I would want any extensions on my system, as I might need them while disconnected.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/documentation/FrugalHowto.pdf
Quote (andrewb @ Aug. 30 2007,22:45)
check :

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Libretto_100CT


for more info for the L100

Thanks for the wiki pointer.

My bios is 7.00, so I am going to upgrade that!  I found the 8.10 and now have to build the install floppy.

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

I strongly recommend getting a IDE 2.5" to CF adapter and installing a CF HD.  This will greatly extend your battery time; as well as run soundless.

Have you overclocked your unit?  I figure without the drive heat, I could do it, but what about power draw?

Also, I have a USB PCMCIA card, and the USB ports are working just fine.

Finally I recommend the frugal install be done with the drive in another computer.  That was a snap to do!
Quote (lucky13 @ Aug. 31 2007,12:15)
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/documentation/FrugalHowto.pdf

Thank you for this pointer.

I installed frugal by entering "install" at CD boot time.  That now looks like it was too limited in setting up the system.  Oh well.....

I have been doing my backups to hda3 (my ext3 data partition).  I see from this document I can be doing it to hda1 (my frugal ext2 partittion).

Can I change to hda1?  It seems so if I manually back up from the system menu.  Are there advantages to backing up to the frugal partition?

Now I have to go and set up the DSL extenstions to download to hda1.  I am sure that will be straight-forward from the menus.
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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. I personally hate the idea of using ext2 for anything other than read-only data. I lost some large files to corruption a couple of times before finally moving all of my read-write stuff to a reiserfs partition.
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