tedmoore99
Group: Members
Posts: 67
Joined: Mar. 2006 |
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Posted: May 01 2006,23:21 |
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Roberts: I may be way off base here, and please set me straight if I am. I tried a frugal install but then could not get my boot options set so I had to type them in each time I booted. I was given information about how to change menu.lst, but try as I might I could not make any changes. In desperation I went to a hd install and then it was easy to go set my options in menu.lst.
My point being, with the frugal install you are very limited to the files that you can change due to everything running in ram.
Time for an old man's memories: Back in 1981 I began teaching at Texas A&M Extension Service. We had no computers so we built two Heathkits. I had heard about UNIX but could no afford the software much less a computer to run it on. No, in 2006, I can install a FREE copy of dsl on my old Armada 1750 laptop and do anything I ever wanted to do. Thanks for dsl and keep up the development work.
I am putting in my bid for a striped down version with the option being of downloading the extensions I might want. I have discovered that the little word processor, spreadsheet program, etc. that comes with dsl is fine for most of what I am doing. I hope to populate my classroom computers with dsl. (Yes, I am still teaching!) --Ted
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