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Topic: 'frugal' - cheatcode, what does it do?

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robh

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Posted: Jan. 25 2007,10:32

hi all,

just a quick question,

what does the frugal cheatcode do? it is not listed in the wiki

i am researching b4 i try to update my way of thinking and go for frugal....

thanks in advance

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full HD install of dsl 3.2

mikshaw

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Posted: Jan. 25 2007,14:00

It remounts the root device of a frugal DSL installation so the user can write to it without needing to load the whole system into ram. It also prevents the "wait for cd" message during shutdown/reboot

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