Questions about Frugal install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Questions about Frugal install
started by: Posh

Posted by Posh on May 08 2005,12:27

I am wondering if I am a good candidate for a frugal install. I am running dsl 1.0 on a Thinkpad 380ed w/ 48 megs of ram. I am booting from a 256cf->pcmcia adapter. The only extra app i need is samba. To get 1.0 to work however i had to edit the wlan-ng.conf file to get it to load the correct driver for my network card (it was loading prism2 when it should have been loading orinoco).

Do I have enough memory for a frugal install? Is a swap file necessary for my machine for this?

Thanks.

Posted by jshaw on May 09 2005,04:24

Your computer should be a perfect candidate for a frugal install. If you add wlan-ng.conf to filetool.sh you should be all set. Search the forums for frugal and you should find all of the information neccessary.

As far as a swap file, I would recommend one, however, not on the CF card, it would kill it shortly. Do you have a HD? If not then you won't be able to use a swap.

josh

Posted by cbagger01 on May 09 2005,22:42

Good Advice.

Flash memory like Compact Flash cards has a limited number of write cycles before it will fail, so you should never have swap files or cache files that are stored on a flash device.

swap is fine on the hard drive, or you can always install more RAM.

You will most likely need to boot up with a minimal RAM usage, like:

failsafe vga=788 base noicons norestore

Posted by Posh on May 10 2005,02:30

thanks for the help guys i really appreciate it. I have it installed an running. My question is where to i put my modified wlan-ng.conf file if i want it to be saved and restored on backup... i have /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf line in my /home/dsl/filetool.lst and i created made my modifications to /ramdisk/etc/pcmcia but it doesnt seem to keep. Is this going to cause problems because a file already exists in that location?

Thanks again.