dellengwyn
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Posted: Aug. 22 2006,22:12 |
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Greetings, All,
I am installing DSL on my old Acernote. It's a P120 with 16 MB of RAM and a 1GB hard drive. It originally ran (and still runs) Win98. Here is the story so far (including my current sticking point--all advice is welcome):
- Following the outline of Robert Shingledecker, and using tomsrtbt, I was able to repartition my drive. I left Windows about 700MB and divided the rest into a partition of 64MB and another of about 236MB.
NOTE: In order to successfully run Robert's frugal_lite.sh script, I had to change the ibiblio.org URL to a mirror site at ftp.oss.cc.gatech.edu. ibiblio.org wasn't allowing me to wget the current.iso file.
- I have successfully gone through the process of executing the frugal_lite.sh script and have rebooted into what I guess is the "poormans" DSL. However, I am not root, so I can't even mount a drive. Moreover, I'm a Linux novice and don't remember a lot of commands. It's learn-as-I-go time!
- Robert says, in his brief guide,
Note: After you get your system running from boot floppy (poorman's) then you can install again into the other partition using the standard frugal_instal.sh giving you much more control of your system. Use the (L)ive CD install option as the poorman's is a virtual liveCD.
Or if the other partiton is large enough then do a regular dsl-hdinstall.
-And this is where I'm stuck. Where is the standard frugal_instal.sh? What does he mean that poorman's is a virtual liveCD? Is my 236MB partition large enough for a regual dsl-hdinstall?
If anyone can point me in the right direction, I'd be very grateful, and I'll post all my notes here in the forum.
Thanks,
Dellengwyn
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