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Topic: frugal or hd-install on usb-stick?, what's better?

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Patrick

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Posted: Jan. 06 2005,14:25

Right now i am running DSL 0.8.4 on a 512 Mb usb-stick (frugal install). Works good but from time to time (due to my stuppidety or something else) i lose valueable backup data from within backup.tar.gz. (backuped changes to firefox/config-files/added non-dsl-applications/etc..)

That's why i am wondering if i am not better of doing a "HD-install" to the usb-stick (which is now formatted fat16 with MsDos on it, booting DSL with loadlin).

What do you think? Right now i start dsl-applications with a little script that "my-dsl loads" them and then executes them so that i do not have to put them in the root of my usb-stick. (saves a lot of boot-time!)

What i'd like is a "hd-install" on my stick so that i don't have to re-install all those application.dsl's ever again. (don't know if that will save boot-time as well?)

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Usb-stick sandisk cruzer titanium 512 Mb:
DSL 2.3 (final)
Firefox (Mozilla 1.06)
WM -biff -cdplay -clockmon -smixer -usic -top -net -biff -ifinfo -cpuload
gps vnc LinNeighborhood (samba) QtParted bdc
xawtv imagemagick xplanet

meo

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Posted: Jan. 06 2005,20:51

Hi!
Well I'm not assuming that I have any solution to your dilemma but anyway I'll tell you how I do it (I have the same type of usb-drive by the way). I have unzipped the embedded 0.9.2 version which can boot just like any usb-install or embedded either in linux or windows. On computers that doesn't have the ability to boot directly from usb you can use a DSL-cd to boot the usb-drive with (see readme among the files resulting from unzipping the embedded 0.9.2). On the same usb-drive i have an "optional" directory with additional programs I use (I also keep the backup-file on the drive; and actually a backup of the backupfile in a special directory). Well this is the way I do it. Maybe it gives you an idea of what's best.

Have fun,
meo

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