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Topic: Frugal w. existing GRUB, how does the frugal_grub.sh behave?

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ivrobi

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Posted: Aug. 05 2005,09:38

Hi!

Can somebody please tell me, how does the frugal_grub script behave, if I already have GRUB on my PC? (I have Win2k and Ubuntu installed, with GRUB as boot manager.) Do I have to download grub.dsl anyway, or is there an another way to add DSL to the existing GRUB menu?

Thanks in advance!
Robert

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Posted: Aug. 06 2005,15:55

If you have grub already, there's no reason to use the grub frugal installer. Just mount the ISO, copy the files onto your chosen partition, and then add it to grub's menu.lst file (probably in Ubuntu's /boot/grub).

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stoneguy

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Posted: Aug. 07 2005,03:18

Does this mean I could add DSL to a system that already has Ubuntu on it without adding any new partitions? Basically, what I want to have happen is a boot-time chroot at the end of stage2.

My only other choice is to put DSL in the 2nd hd, but not in the 1st partition. In cbagger01's instructions in

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....RL]
is mention that /KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX should go on the 1st drive. Is that really mandatory?

In case anyone's wondering, I want to build a custom kernel for my DSL system. But the prospect of doing that on a 64MB P133 is unappealing - and I have a somewhat larger and faster system dual-booting Win98 and Ubuntu.

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 07 2005,03:41

I don't think it's mandatory...DSL should run from any available ext2/ext3/reiser partition as long as grub is properly configured. If it doesn't then there is something seriously messed up with DSL/Knoppix. I haven't tried this, but i don't see any reason why frugal couldn't be put on an existing partition, even if there is an operating system already there. As long as there are no problems with filenames (both systems needing different files of the same name), it should work fine. Since frugal extracts into ramdisk, your ubuntu should be untouched.

Just for the sake of organization, though, it's probably best to have a separate partition for each operating system

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cbagger01

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Posted: Aug. 07 2005,04:07

I think you can load it to other partitions, but you will probably need to add something like this to your append statement:

fromhd=/dev/hda2

if you were going to boot from partition hda2 for example.

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