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rowanparker Offline

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Posted: June 29 2006,13:47

Hello,
I ran the Live CD and used the tool to install to a USB stick. I rebooted but this time used a floppy to boot the USB stick instead of CD.

I was just wondering, is it just like booting the Live CD but its a Live USB instead. Or is it actually DSL on the USB stick, meaning its a full operating system that will run from the USB stick as though its a hard drive.

If it is the first option, is there anyway to make it the second option? Because I would hate to have to customize it everytime and download things again and so on.

Thanks, Rowan.

humpty

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Posted: June 30 2006,02:59

it's like a live cd, some call it 'frugal'.

install it permanently like to a hard disk? maybe, although i don't
recommend it, you might run out of space, wear out the usb,
and that's just the start of your problems (see hd install section
of forum for a good laugh).

dsl saves your settings to a backup file on a partition of your choice
e.g DSLpanel>Backup/Restore: sda2. So you can re-boot using bootline with restore=/dev/sda2. For more info about the backup
file, read the page that dillo pops out after you load dsl.

Frugal is the way. Long Live Frugal.