cbagger01
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Posted: May 24 2005,22:45 |
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Check out the forums and the documentation page for more details, but
the main difference between a poormans install and a frugal hd install is this:
poormans = copy the compressed image file over but do not install a bootloader like lilo
frugal = copy the compressed image file over AND install a bootloader. Also, uses the "frugal" bootcode automatically.
A frugal install is intended for an installation to a hard drive. It is also possible to do a frugal install to a USB drive if you can redirect the script to install to a properly setup USB drive sdax
This install to USB pendrive script will do one of two things, depending on your menu choices inside the script:
1) A USBZIP install, which will modify the beginning of your USB device to behave like a USB Zip drive. This is one way of making a bootable USB device if your computer BIOS supports USBZIP boot type.
2) A USBHDD install, which will reformat your device to behave like a USB hard drive that is formatted for the Linux EXT2 file system. This is needed if your computer BIOS supports the USBHDD boot type. Computers that can do both seem to like the USBHDD better because the USBZIP requires very specific drive geometry settings and it can sometimes fail to work for certain USB devices.
There are other (manual) ways to prepare a USB device for use as a DSL boot device but they require some experimenting by the user. For example, HP and Dell both provide a "Bootable USB key" utility program for MSWindows that can help you create a USBHDD system that can boot DSL frugal AND because it is a FAT filesystem it can also also be used for data storage when plugged into a MSWindows computer.
Hope this helps.
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