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Topic: Why do I still do regular HD installs of DSL?, learning and educating

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mikshaw

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Posted: July 30 2005,22:00

I imagine the script can be edited to your liking. I've never seen it, or used it. I'm running what I suppose is called "poorman's", which in my view is the same as frugal, but without the bootloader installation. I just copied the contents of the ISO onto an arbitrary partition and edited my existing bootloader.

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roberts

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Posted: July 31 2005,00:38

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The instructions insist on hda & say lilo will be installed.

Is this set in stone? Or maybe the install script can be edited?

We offer both frugal grub and frugal lilo.

joshwaller
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Posted: Aug. 13 2005,11:07

The reason I did a HD install instead of a 'frugal' install was probably because the first doc that comes up when you run DSL from CD is "getting started with DSL: how to install to HD" it doesn't mention doing a frugal install or what a frugal install is...

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Posted: Aug. 15 2005,23:14

I'm a noob, and I've tried some distros in the past, but never spent enough time to actually get things working. This time, I'm going to do it. But the reason I've had to stick with the HD install, is I can never get the frugal installs to work properly. With frugal lilo, I can boot my DSL partition, but I can't get into my windows (and I'm not sure how to edit /etc/lilo.conf and make the changes stay on rebooting). With the frugal grub install I can boot my windows partition, but not my DSL partition. It sticks on my the line "kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda2" and says it can't find the instruction (it also says something like that on installation). I don't know what do from there.

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Posted: Aug. 18 2005,00:16

modify lilo.conf for frugal
1. Open a root shell Xhells>Root Access
2. mount /mnt/hda2
3. Now using your editor of choice... edit the following file for your boot options:
/mnt/hda2/boot/lilo.conf
4. ln -sf /mnt/hda2/boot /
5. lilo -C /mnt/hda2/boot/lilo.conf
6. reboot