installing *.dsl to hda1/ sda1 instead of ramdisk

Forum: HD Install
Topic: installing *.dsl to hda1/ sda1 instead of ramdisk
started by: A jerk

Posted by A jerk on Oct. 09 2005,23:16

Got a ramdisk problem: whenever i try to download and install more than 2 or 3 extensions to my computer. it freezes. Probably becoz of my sucky ramstick.

i m currently using a usb-zip pendrive and it has 2 partitions on it.(sda1, sda2)

Wondering if there is a way to install the *.dsl' and *.tar.gz' extensions right to my usb. instead of puting them on the ramdisk.so that it wont fill up my ramdisk memory.

any help is greatly appreciated

A jerk.

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 10 2005,03:26

If you use persistent opt and home you can install .tar.gz and .uci extensions to harddrive, but installing .dsl extensions to harddrive would require the system to be installed as a standard hd installation....you apparently are using frugal.

There are ways around it, such as copying /usr and /etc to the harddrive and remounting those directories, but you would be making a lot of extra work for yourself.

Posted by A jerk on Oct. 11 2005,09:00

Thanks a lot mikshaw.
I would consider doing a standard hd installation.

But, now i am just curious:
how can you make an empty virtual Directory and mount/redirect it to another dir.

thank u.
A jerk

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 11 2005,15:58

I haven't had enough coffee to fully think this through, so i won't post specifics.
It requires the use of the "mount --bind" command, which allows you to mount a directory on an already-mounted filesystem. I do this for home and opt because i put them on the same partition as KNOPPIX, which is already mounted when the system boots up. I haven't tried it with any other directories though.