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Posted: Mar. 29 2007,09:34 QUOTE

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I wished to change my  successful Frugal install because it is supposed to be a quicker OS using TORAM.

It can be quicker that way, but it depends on your hardware. How much RAM do you have? How big is your swap? If you don't like it toram, are you prepared to tackle LILO again? The benefit of GRUB over LILO will be apparent if you decide to make any changes. GRUB's menu.list is (edit: easily) edited and reasonably easy to understand. LILO requires you edit lilo.conf, which isn't as "user-friendly" as menu.list, and then run lilo.
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You gave me two suggested references-one which you said OOPS- was incorrect so I disregarded it.

I wrote, "Oops, the first link is the wrong one. The process of editing the menu.list, though, is the same with respect to which line toram goes..."


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Posted: Mar. 29 2007,09:49 QUOTE

Im back with a new GRUB frugal install. what is the easiest way now to get TORAM.
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Posted: Mar. 29 2007,10:48 QUOTE

1. Right click on the emelfm icon, select open as root/super user. Or you can open it from the menu, but you have to be root to edit menu.lst.

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.

4. Don't panic and start over from scratch if you don't get it right the first time. You'll only have to go back and fix the entry you use to load DSL. If you DO run into another issue with getting it working, come back here and paste in your menu.lst so someone can help you (I will if I'm around; I have meetings all day). That's where the issue will be -- in that one file.

5. No hard feelings, okay?


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Posted: Mar. 30 2007,17:24 QUOTE

1. Open a terminal (click on the 'X Term' icon)

  Inside the terminal you can type commands.
  type in the commands as suggested below and then <enter>

2. Find out where menu.lst is,

  in the terminal try,
  ls /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst
  (there is a space after 'ls')

  if it is there, it shows "/mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst"

  if it isn't there, you get an error message. in which case
  you need to change the partition name;
  e.g
      ls /mnt/hda2/boot/grub/menu.lst
  or  ls /mnt/hdb1/boot/grub/menu.lst

  basically you need to find where the grub installation put
  the file menu.lst. (i'm assuming hda1 for the commands below)

3. Once step 2 is successful, you now edit it.
  but first become the 'root' user (an account which let's
  you play god).

  In the same terminal,
  sudo su

4. Now edit the menu.lst file,

  In the same terminal,
  beaver /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst

  a text editor (called beaver) pops up with the contents of
  menu.lst.

5. Inside beaver, find the first line that looks something like this;

  kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal

6. at the end of the line add the word ' toram' (including the space),
  so now you have;

  kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal toram


7. Save the file,
  from the beaver menu,
  File > Save

8. Reboot.
  (right click on the desktop, >Power Down>Reboot.
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Posted: Mar. 31 2007,01:43 QUOTE

Quote (lucky13 @ Mar. 29 2007,05:48)
1. Right click on the emelfm icon, select open as root/super user. Or you can open it from the menu, but you have to be root to edit menu.lst.

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.

4. Don't panic and start over from scratch if you don't get it right the first time. You'll only have to go back and fix the entry you use to load DSL. If you DO run into another issue with getting it working, come back here and paste in your menu.lst so someone can help you (I will if I'm around; I have meetings all day). That's where the issue will be -- in that one file.

5. No hard feelings, okay?

Hi lucky thanks for hanging in there- no hard feelings-For your info Ive got a thinkpad celeron700 128 ram.Will that be better running with the toram option? or is all this wasting time?

I followed your instruction carefully many times with the same result-entered as super root
got the grub menu list on the right side of screen double clicked and got the choices up but when I clicked on view the file nothing happens.

Likewise following Humpty carefully I got the message no such file or directory for both the linux and swap partitions.
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