ugol
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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,12:50 |
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Hi everybody,
Summary: a student of mine has an old PC at home with a little space space on both hda1 and hdb1. There are not other partitions.
I suggested her to put a copy of a remastering I did (starting from DSL 2.1) on hda1 as a "poor man's install" and she'll do it. Since she's not very skilled with Linux, I don't want to suggest her to repartition the primary disk in order to not give her too many troubles.
First question: can she do an automatic backup of her home files to/from the secondary disk? It seems to me to remember that DSL perhaps can't do it, but I'm not sure. I've googled a little this morning, but I've not found any answer.
Of course, she can just try, but since students do a lot of strange mistakes, I'll not sure about her tests.
Second question: in order to make faster the boot process, it would be nice to use GRUB in order to write on the MBR of hda. There is another topic in this area, saying that a link in the wiki page to a file for putting GRUB on a floppy is no more working.
Is it possible to settle the MBR by working from the live CD (or from the "poor man's install")? Do I need grub.dsl? I don't think so, because the GRUB-frugal install works, so there must be a way ....
Many thanks for your help,
ciao,
Ugo
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