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gregc

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Posted: Mar. 31 2007,01:49

Thanks Humpty
Followed to the letter but always get same response fo both my partitions-
no such file or directory.

Wittfella

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Posted: Mar. 31 2007,02:04

Hey gregc, I think 128mb might be a little tight for the toram option, it might not be worth your while.

I was playing with a frugal install on an old desktop but it has 384mb of ram, and honestly I could not tell the difference between toram on or off, so I left it off.

However, I'm not sure why you are getting those errors trying to edit the menu.lst, mine works ok, but you can try toram temporarily straight from the grub command at startup.

When the grub list appears, hit 'e' to edit, hit 'e' again and then you can change the boot options. Just add toram to the end of the line. Hit 'enter' when done, and then 'b' to boot.

Cheers,
Witty

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Posted: Mar. 31 2007,02:29

Hi witty
My impression was that if it fits on the ram- and it should do in my case- it would make it quicker; but maybe not .In your case you have a quick computer anyway-at least compared to mine.
Maybe others will enlighten us on the speed issue.
GREG

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Posted: Mar. 31 2007,08:16

Quote (lucky13 @ Mar. 29 2007,05:48)

2. In the right pane, go to /boot/grub. Find menu.lst. Double click on it. It will open up in beaver (text editor) after asking you what you want to do -- you want to view file.

3. You need to make sure you have the first (default) entry that loads with your particular partition set up with the bootcodes you want for your computer: frugal, where your /home and /opt partitions are, toram, frugal, restore, etc. Make sure the toram one is there and not commented out (# is the comment out symbol). Make sure the partitions are right for your computer.

I spent a long time on this but each time I pressed View File-nothing happened.
I then found by rt click on beaver I entered beaver as super user and I have been able to bring up the menu file.BUT the file is in READ ONLY
What to do now?
Also I notice that the bootcodes dont have the correct partition on them-how can the computer boot up with the incorrect hda # ?
THANKS

curaga

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Posted: Mar. 31 2007,13:28

grub uses it's own numbers for partitions (hda1 is (hd0,0))...
Seems you found the file.. Give more specific info so we can help, root is god and can do anything..

By the way, DSL just flies on my 128-mb laptop from cd, so it will be even faster when booted off a hard disk.

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