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Posted: Sep. 27 2005,13:28 QUOTE

Hello folks.

Well, I thought I could install DSL.  But rather than chance it on a computer that isn't technically mine, I thought I'd experiment on my ancient laptop.  Good thing, too, cause I have no idea how to do this.

I have the 1.5 DSL CD.  I boot up, and I get the opening DSL screen telling me to hit F2 or F3 for boot options.  I when I do this, I don't see an option for frugal.  On the F3 page, there's the "install" command, which brings me to a black screen where I get about 10 options.  One says something like "grub install with frugal" or something like that.  I choose that, but after (apparently) blanking my HD I reboot to a grub prompt.  I don't really know what to do from there.

So, what I need to know is how do a I do a frugal install?  I looked at the wiki, but I didn't see anything.  I see a lot of questions here on this forum, but nothing that gives a step by step explanation about how to do a frugal.  Maybe I'm just blind...
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Posted: Sep. 27 2005,16:53 QUOTE

Here ya go:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....wto.pdf

Or, if you feel daring, en español:
http://www.txemijendrix.com/dsl/FrugalHowTo_ES.html


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Posted: Sep. 30 2005,07:17 QUOTE

Your Fuzzy God, thanks for the pdf file.

I got to page 3 before hitting a snag.  I've set up my HD with hda1 at 98 megs for boot, hda2 with 5+ gigs, and hda3 with 500 megs as swap.  But, when I reboot and begin to start the install, I type "/usr/bin/frugal_install.sh" and get an error saying "bash: /usr/bin/frugal.sh: No such file or directory."

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks
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Posted: Sep. 30 2005,12:22 QUOTE

mwdowns, if I remember right I believe it is in /usr/sbin not /usr/bin. Try /usr/sbin/frugal_install.sh and see if that works.
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Posted: Oct. 03 2005,08:31 QUOTE

Quote (adssse @ Sep. 30 2005,08:22)
mwdowns, if I remember right I believe it is in /usr/sbin not /usr/bin. Try /usr/sbin/frugal_install.sh and see if that works.

Indeed it was /sbin/

Boy do I feel sheepish. :laugh:

The install went easy as pie after that.  Thanks.
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