Ready for Frugal

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Ready for Frugal
started by: victorv

Posted by victorv on Sep. 18 2005,16:44

I am getting ready to do a frugal install and need some help. I have a dual boot system with Win98 on hda1 and SimplyMepis Linux on hdb1 using the grub boot loader. I have partitioned and formated (ext2) hda2 for DSL image and hda3 for opt and home.

So here I am and what I need to know from here. The liveCD uses my Linux swap on hdb2 so I'm thinking the frugal will also and I want to use grub and just add Boot text to menu.lst for DSL. Am I right about the swap and can someone guide me the rest of the way through the install and tell me what boot text to add to the grub menu.lst? Thanks!

I like the LiveCD and want this insall so I can play with it more!

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 18 2005,20:00

yes, your swap will work for frugal.

The KNOPPIX and boot directories should be copied into hda2.
Your grub entry could be something like this:
title DSL
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 dsl frugal opt=hda3 home=hda3 vga=794 dma
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz

Posted by victorv on Sep. 18 2005,20:12

Thanks for the reply,
What about lilo? I don't want it to install.

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 18 2005,22:25

If you just copy the directories over manually, that's the install. You're done. Lilo is added only if you install using the frugal installer script, which is unnecessary since you already have a useable bootloader.

Posted by victorv on Sep. 18 2005,23:08

Thanks, I was thinking to much! Going to do that now.

Posted by victorv on Sep. 19 2005,20:24

Duhhh...... that was to easy, did it and running great! And they say linux is hard!

Thanks mikshaw

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 19 2005,21:18

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And they say linux is hard!

Oh, wait... NOW that you've got the OS installed on your box, and it's up and running,
you'll want to do these things quickly to make sure it's in top shape, and stays that way!!

[EDIT] Someone reminded me that I had left out MANY steps to this method of madness..
Extra steps added as sub "A" entries .. [/EDIT]

1. Install motherboard drivers.
1A. Reboot
2. Install all new hardware drivers.
2A. Reboot many times
3. Install virus-scanning software.
3A. Reboot
4. Upgrade and update virus-scanning software.
4A. Reboot
5. Install spyware-scanning software.
5A. Reboot
6. Upgrade and update spyware-scanning software.
6A. Reboot
7. Install personal firewall.
7A. Reboot
8. Upgrade personal firewall.
8A. Reboot
9. Call to validate your user license key
9A. Reboot
10. Install service packs.
10A. Reboot many times
11 Install security patches.
11A. Reboot many times
12. Install all user software.
12A. Reboot many times
13. Upgrade all user software.
13A. Reboot many times
14. backup partition.
15. pray for no major hardware failures....
...if mobo=0 , repeat 1-14, as your backup may be useless..

No? ...NO!! ..NO MORE!!

Who says LINUX is hard ?? ?? ??

73
ke4nt

Posted by larkl on Sep. 19 2005,22:15

ABSOLUTELY! I'm laughing out loud! ABSOLUTELY! It's absurd the time that we spend to keep a W** box running when 99% that it's used for is web surfing and some light word processing and spreadsheets.

Posted by adssse on Sep. 20 2005,00:12

haha, that really is alot of inconvenience, especially when you see it all in a long, very long list. Thanks for the laugh. (Actually why am I laughing? Thats just not right.)

Posted by ivrobi on Sep. 23 2005,06:34

Well, I had a similar question (how to do frugal w. existing linux distro and GRUB bootloader) earlier. I did a frugal install as mikshaw, cbagger and stoneguy suggested it (Thanx, folks!) and it really blasts on my home PC (Celeron 600MHz, 192MB RAM) with the 'toram' option. Good to see it working like this!

Greetings!