Completely lost with a Frugal

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Completely lost with a Frugal
started by: mwdowns

Posted by mwdowns on Sep. 27 2005,13:28

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...

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Sep. 27 2005,16:53

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 >

Posted by mwdowns on Sep. 30 2005,07:17

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

Posted by adssse on Sep. 30 2005,12:22

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.

Posted by mwdowns on Oct. 03 2005,08:31

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.

Posted by adssse on Oct. 04 2005,03:01

Glad to hear it went well. I think you will really enjoy frugal.