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Posted: May 04 2005,02:23 QUOTE
Got my hands on a neat little thin client box.  Has floppy, 4Gb Hd, usb, ethernet, and enough memory for most stuff.  On another machine I created a pen drive frugal install, and a bootusb floppy.  Boots great but slow.  Created three partitions on the hd.  hda1=500Mb for DSL,  hda2=256Mb for swap, and hda3=the rest for storage.  FTP'd the dsl iso file onto hda3 and ran the frugal install script using that file to install to hda1.  So far things are working just as I would like except I would really like to do a full hd-install.  When I run the hd-install script in complains about not having a /dev/cdrom and some stuff about /proc.

Questiion:

Is there a way to use the iso file like I did for the frugal install to do the hd-install while booted from the pen drive?

Thanks in advance for any help
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Posted: May 05 2005,14:04 QUOTE
Got it!  Almost by accident.  I put a cdrom drive in a usb case.  Then I tried to boot it with the bootusb floppy and the DSL cd in the drive.  That failed.  I then took out the bootusb floppy and tried to boot the frugal install I had on hda1.  The frugal boot found the usb-cdrom drive and booted from it instead of the hd.  I then did the hd-install from the booted cd.

I can even set XMMS preferences to do a digital extraction and play music cd's from the usb-cdrom drive.

It just doesn't get any better than that!!!!
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Posted: May 05 2005,14:23 QUOTE
Nice..

Also, look at the grip.dsl program.
Put that dig extraction to good use !!

73
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