Today, 12:58 AM
You sound close. Had another idea. Maybe a variant of the same basic plan. If you can brew a DSL you like in (say) VBox, do the restore, update & upgrade, customize, snapshot it (and/or live-usb-maker) that gets you a known-good image hopefully faster than working on the target machine (apt-cache search for cli-snapshot) The point of doing that is to try to "route around" an install by preparing all that for a later frugal install. So you could do some minimal gentoo (with it's own grub controlling the 600X) and then just do a frugal install of DSL. They're sort of like zip-slack was except intead of UMSDOS volumes they're yunno ext4 (etc) filesystems laying on the host system. It's a bit more work up-front, but it changes the 600X installation to just a copy of squash volumes and it's fast. I forget just now, but basically you use the frugal to generate the few "boot" lines that go into (?) /etc/40_grub_custom (apology this all from memory) and then boot & do the update-grub on your actual host system to detect it. There's a YT video that's good on teh antiX stuff by one of the MX devs 'nymmed DolphinOracle. Then you've already go all the stuff on the right drive and you're a couple chroots away from two hosts on the device.
There are a few permutations of this general plan that could apply. Say that, after you get DSL updated and customized the way you want in the VM, you choose to use the live usb maker to make a stick to be used for the frugal (because it became GB after your updates/customizing), you could use a Plop CD to be able to boot it if the BIOS wont do USB boots.
The frugals are basically 2 filesystem files -- a user and a linuxfs and the only pain/downside in my own usage is that upgrading the kernels in them is a separate multiple-step process itself.
My hunch is that the USB would be 1.1 or something and too slow to run off of, but suitable for a one-off installation to the disk. I wanna say (?) it was static persistent that sounded the most safe, but the YT video walks you through.
So, since you're modern-web-free, say nothing much linux-ey works right for a host system--you could make even (say) NTFS volume and put XP on it and the frugal would exist on your NTFS volume. There's a _ton_ of flexibility in the antiX "stuff".
You have many options.
Keep us posted if you feel like it.
There are a few permutations of this general plan that could apply. Say that, after you get DSL updated and customized the way you want in the VM, you choose to use the live usb maker to make a stick to be used for the frugal (because it became GB after your updates/customizing), you could use a Plop CD to be able to boot it if the BIOS wont do USB boots.
The frugals are basically 2 filesystem files -- a user and a linuxfs and the only pain/downside in my own usage is that upgrading the kernels in them is a separate multiple-step process itself.
My hunch is that the USB would be 1.1 or something and too slow to run off of, but suitable for a one-off installation to the disk. I wanna say (?) it was static persistent that sounded the most safe, but the YT video walks you through.
So, since you're modern-web-free, say nothing much linux-ey works right for a host system--you could make even (say) NTFS volume and put XP on it and the frugal would exist on your NTFS volume. There's a _ton_ of flexibility in the antiX "stuff".
You have many options.
Keep us posted if you feel like it.