ruserious
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Posted: Dec. 16 2005,18:56 |
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| Quote (cognitive tweak @ Dec. 16 2005,08:14) | |
> (1) Is this the only way to install a DSL operating system on your hard drive?
no, you can also install it "normally to your harddrive, however AFAIK you can't easily upgrade to newer versions. Which IMHO is a major drawback. Even on older hardware, I prefer the frugal installs.
> is it not slow because it's an compressed image?
slow is relative, isn't it. ;) But seriously, it's not the fastest way, that's true.
> (2) can i make the 3 extra needed linux partitions out of my
> existing partitions without needing to format that entire
> partition?
There are some tools to resize existing partitions, but especially with NTFS partitions this is not a guarantueed thing. I have done it one some systems without problems. But one time the partition table became corrupted and all data went bye bye. There were enough warnings, and I had made backups.
You can take a look at qparted which you can install via mydsl, but I am not sure if it really works on ntfs. You'll have to make backups anhow though, even with the more expensive, commercial tools.
If your system is relatively new, why not try out the vmware player? I have it running on a 933 Mhz System with 256 MB RAM, and DSL runs ok (albeit after configuring the VMware player to use little RAM).
> i cant format that ntfs partition because [...]
*nix and writing on an ntfs partitions is still not a recommended thing to do. You may encounter dataloss. Not worth the risk.
> will it take forever to start up just like a knoppix boot cd?
> or are the hardware settings saved?
It's comparable, no at this point I am not aware that there is a way for saving it.
> is the DSL partition read-only only?
You can write to the partitions on the harddisk. However when booting DSL mounts the image and creates a ramdisk etc., so there is plenty of stuff there, that you cannot easily overwrite (somebody with better knowledge can fill in the details probably). However the integrated backup/restore is able to backup your modified files, and put them back over the "default" files after a reboot (helpful for configuration files for example).
> Can someone please explain what mySDL is.
It is the package system. There are packages available as .dsl, .uci and .tar.gz. Using mydsl on a pc with net-connection you connect to the repository and can choose from those and install them from the net. You are also able to use those packages to "remaster" your own version of DSL that is bigger than 50 MB and thus comes with more software.
> i'm chosing DSM because i need something efficient and fast. i
> only need a basic linux system to compile C++ with and such..
Personally for that purpose I would use cygwin, or Microsofts SFU. Remember that DSL is not mainly developer oriented. IIRC it doesn't come with a compiler or any dev-tools or libs. (Someone correct if I am wrong).
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