Frugal/Poorman Install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Frugal/Poorman Install
started by: guille

Posted by guille on April 12 2004,16:19

I know a 'pseudo' installation: knoppix tohd=/dev/hdxxx Is that frugal or poorman's installation? Where can I know how to do both?
Tks in advance
Guille

Posted by Dan on April 12 2004,16:24

Guille, there is a much more complete way of installing in the 'poorman' manner. With the frugal script you can have a bootable compressed image without having to use a floppy or a cd to boot. You can even save your settings on a separate partition and have a customized, self contained system which takes up less than 50MBs of space.

Frugal is a script, get to root and just type frugal-install or something like that.

Posted by guille on April 12 2004,16:39

Quote (Dan @ April 12 2004,12:24)

Ok thanks a lot!!!!
So 'frugal' is a script and tohd=/hda/ fromhd= is the poorman installation and script frugal is better you said? Have I understood?

Posted by Dan on April 12 2004,16:55

Yeah, that's about right. Though "poorman's" refers to a lot of methods where of running the compressed image on a HD. IMO the 'frugal' script is a very good extension of that idea as it gets lilo all set up and you don't need any external boot image.

Posted by guille on April 12 2004,17:40

Quote (Dan @ April 12 2004,12:55)

Thanks a lof my friend!
Now looking in the rest of the forums I found this that I want to share with you (if you don't know of course)
< http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/general_howto >
I've just tried and it works!! It's some kind of poormens instalation but will be very usefull to me because it permits me to install DSL in a very old laptop without cd or flash memory and how to make a DSL boot disk :-)
cheers!
Guille