Laptops :: DSL 4.1 frugal install problems on Libretto 100



You need the -2button if you want to copy/paste the Linux way.  When you have highlighted text in a console window, if you click both mouse buttons at the same time, it will paste the highlighted text wherever your active cursor is currently pointing (e.g. the console itself, or your email message in Firefox, or in the beaver window).  It's a great way to copy/paste.
Looks like my deskto problems are centered around old config stuff saved for my persistent dsl user on hda3.  A boot without out the home= and with norestore brought up the desktop properly.  So since I have to install DSL 4.2.1 shortly (might as well restart with the current), I am reformating my hda3 and then will reinstall...

RIght after my department status meeting conference call; nice benny of working from home, you can multitask without guilt!
Quote (dslrgm @ Dec. 19 2007,20:38)
A Frugual install to disk does NOT use /boot/ for loading the system.  This is really /Knoppix/boot/. btw.

ONce grub is installed it does use /boot/grub on the partition that you instructed grub to install itself to. I checked overnight & the directory cdrom is where the KNOPPIX file is mounted. This is mounted read-only, hence why you can't (& wouldn't) want to edit it.

I have my Libretto set up with:

hda1 = Win98 FAT
hda2 = DSL3.x - Native Linux
hda3 = Swap
hda4 = Linux Native - used for persistent home & backup location for non-home files that are backed up

I have grub installed to use files in /boot/grub on hda2 - this can be specified when installing grub. I have DSL4RC1 (soon to be DSL4.2) loaded onto the windows partition. All that is needed is to copy the boot & knoppix directories from the CDROM (I use a usb stick to do this, or via the network using any of the OS's on the machine). I then edit the menu.lst file stored in /boot/grub on hda2 to boot DSL4 from the files stored on the windows partition, or DSl 3.x from the files on hda2.

I suspect you have not yet found the correct /boot directory, but it must be there somewhere or grub won't work!
A frugal emulates the actual livecd, so /cdrom/boot is correct for frugals, but /KNOPPIX is not.
Quote (andrewb @ Dec. 20 2007,18:39)
Quote (dslrgm @ Dec. 19 2007,20:38)
A Frugual install to disk does NOT use /boot/ for loading the system.  This is really /Knoppix/boot/. btw.

ONce grub is installed it does use /boot/grub on the partition that you instructed grub to install itself to. I checked overnight & the directory cdrom is where the KNOPPIX file is mounted. This is mounted read-only, hence why you can't (& wouldn't) want to edit it.

I have my Libretto set up with:

hda1 = Win98 FAT
hda2 = DSL3.x - Native Linux
hda3 = Swap
hda4 = Linux Native - used for persistent home & backup location for non-home files that are backed up

I have grub installed to use files in /boot/grub on hda2 - this can be specified when installing grub. I have DSL4RC1 (soon to be DSL4.2) loaded onto the windows partition. All that is needed is to copy the boot & knoppix directories from the CDROM (I use a usb stick to do this, or via the network using any of the OS's on the machine). I then edit the menu.lst file stored in /boot/grub on hda2 to boot DSL4 from the files stored on the windows partition, or DSl 3.x from the files on hda2.

I suspect you have not yet found the correct /boot directory, but it must be there somewhere or grub won't work!

Not on my frugal install....

All the changes are in /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst and those are what get applied.

/boot/grub/menu.lst is just a base setup and is not actively being used.

How can I tell?  By the menu that grub presents at boot time.  That is the menu in /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst

So our different situations is very interesting.  BTW, I checked back to some old postings of when I was first getting DSL 3.4 working on this Libretto, and the /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst was where I was told to make mods back then (jul '07 timeframe).
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