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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,23:51 QUOTE
Pls help...
I`ve just finished the frugal install, and it works so great that I decided to stay with this distro  :)
I want my home and opt directories stay on hard drive and dont wavt to waste time with backing up. So I copied them to hda2 (30GB ext2, where the MyDSL and the cd image also are). After that, edited menu.lst for grub, added: home=hda opt=hda2 norestore
But after reboot, it behaves as before, but doesn`t see any home or opt (because its not on ramdisk). therefore it refuses to boot properly.    :angry:
Alredy tried to fool it with tricky symlinks, wont work. tried home=/mnt/hda2 and home=hda2/home and such, nothing good.

Has anybody some idea what the problem could be? Is it a bug or just I cant read that howto and do it correctly?

???
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Posted: Jan. 05 2007,01:01 QUOTE
You can't use persistent directories on the same partition that holds DSL, unless you also run it "toram".

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Posted: Jan. 05 2007,18:00 QUOTE
Thank you! Repartitioning the entire hdd to separate them helped.
and its cool ;)
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Posted: Jan. 05 2007,19:09 QUOTE
Something else to note, although you've already repartitioned...
DSL can't use reiserfs as its root filesystem, but persistent directories can.  Using reiserfs can save a lot of the hassle of fscking ext drives every couple of months.

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