frugal_lite success for a noobiee!!!
Forum: Laptops
Topic: frugal_lite success for a noobiee!!!
started by: iakudi
Posted by iakudi on Oct. 18 2005,23:45
YIPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE !!!Somehow I got my DSL to work,....using the frugal_lite
I cant believe I managed to get this far, this is from someone who does not know his "ass from his elbow" (a very britsh saying for someone who is thick/stupid) regarding Linux....
I just have a few post install questions:
When I do df -h I get:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0 3.0M 607.0k 2.4M 20% /
/dev/hda2 493.8M 48.7M 419.6M 10% /cdrom
/dev/clopp 115.7M 115.7M 0 100% /KNOPPIX
/ramdisk 21.4M 652.9k 20.8M 3% /ramdisk
(I still have my Debian installed somewhere here as I am missing the other half of his disk)
to keep things simple I wanted just a single SWAP partition of 128MB and the rest I was happy to have for everything else, as I am happy to keep everything together.
Can someone please tell me I can do this? I was tempted to re-do my laptop but format the whole disk but then I was not sure what partitions to use and how...
Posted by iakudi on Oct. 19 2005,01:15
Well I trashed the laptop and tried doing my best (yikes)Anyway I thought I had creared a swap file using fdisk but when I boot into DSL the icons on the side seem to indicate there is no swap....
I have ended up with 4 partitions:
1 Linux Swap (128MB) /de/hda1
2 Linux (64MB) /dev/hda2
3 Linux (64MB) /dev/hda3
4 Linux (?? I tried allocate the rest) /dev/hda4
I am trying to configure frugal so it will runn off my HDD and not the floppy, also I need to set uo the swap file and clean the rest of my partitions. I used /dev/hda to store frugal lite, do I still need it??
Wow I have so many questions...apologies if I keep posting and annoying everyone
Posted by motokitn on Oct. 19 2005,05:35
motokitn still trying to grok all these partitions... almost like when I installed...parted.dsl is a command-line partition editor that work quite well for me. I used it to rescue several gigs of my storage drive, which my old mobo couldn't see but my new one does
Instead of running it from the menu I run it from a terminal with the command: parted /dev/hda
running it from the menu always gave me fits.
I recommend reading its man page first though, the commands aren't intuitive to a newcomer. I personally would combine to form two partitions, one swap and one system. I may be crazy for this, I don't know. It sounds like that might be what you have already. One thing about df though, it doesn't tell you anything about unmounted partitions. Hope it's all going good!
Posted by iakudi on Oct. 19 2005,12:30
Using a combination of fdisk and cdisk I created the 3 partitions, the first one /dev/hda1 was for the iso image from the net (64MB), the second was 1 128MB swap file (/dev/hda2) and teh third /dev/hda3 for the initial bootfloppy.img. Now that I have created the floppy I used cdisk to drop /dev/hda3 and re-create a big parition (around 1Gb) to using much of the the unallocated space and left a small part (about 64MB /dev/hda4) to make it bootable and install frugal. I managed to work out how activate my swap file although as I have just 32MB ram my swap file almost running at maximum - I have not seen much difference to before (when I has an inactive swap file). Is this a good set up to have? I only have 1.4Gb so was wondering if I should combine /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 as one partition and make the whole thing bootable??
Can anyone help me installing frugal onto my bootable partition so I do not have to keep going through the floppy each time !! I tried to do a wget to distro.ibiblio from DSL but I get a 500 error, following some threads I tried to edit /usr/sbin/frugal_sh with the correct pathnames etc but even as root as I not able to do this !
I will keep you posted on my adventures ! I may try booting with tom rtdsk as I was succefully getting wget to work.
Posted by doobit on Oct. 19 2005,20:37
No need to post so many times. See my answer to your last post.