RoGuE_StreaK
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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,00:56 |
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Some general thoughts, I'm not really qualified to give "advice" as I haven't used half of what you are talking about:
1, 2, 3. I'd say frugal install, loading toram, WITHOUT a swap partition. From what I've heard having a swaf on CF is a great way to destroy the CF in a hurry. And as you have 512MB RAM, may as well use it! As you won't be dual-booting (correct?), a frugal setup just using the default LILO boot-loader should be fine, and lets you change all of your boot options, including putting in "toram". Experiment first booting from liveCD to see what kind of boot options you can throw in to get the most out of your system.
4. No idea.
My thoughts are to experiment with a liveCD, get the settings and packages the way you want them, then create a backup file with these settings to put in your root directory, along with your desired dsl packages, so that they automatically load when you boot. Instant custom system. Oh, I think I read somewhere about a setting to disable the "configuring hardware" at boot, saving time if you haven't made any hardware changes since you configured, but I haven't tried it and don't know the full story. But anything to speed up boot time would probably be worth investigating.
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