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mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 01 2005,01:18

If you have or get a USB stick, you could install frugal DSL on that...should run quite a bit faster than the CD.

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QmQ

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Posted: Aug. 01 2005,01:23

I've got one, but it's 64MB, so no way to put DSL + gcc there. Nevermind though. Let's leave it as is.

Nevertheless, I'd really like to install emacs since I'm going to be using X after all and emacs is my most favorite editor. Is there a .dsl with it? [couldn't find one

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If not the only way's to remaster, right?

Nevertheless, thanks for all your help guys

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mgmont

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Posted: Aug. 01 2005,02:16

I have a suggestion. You could add a swap file if you are willing to purchase a usb hard drive. They make very small (physically) hard drives with about 2 to 4 gigs of space that plug into the usb port. You could partition on of these with a swap partition and also have some extra file storage room.. Actually, you could also partition it so you could put DSL on it also. I have seen these on sale at Frys for about $70 at times. You could use a flash memory pin drive, but it would probably die a premature death due to the number of writes if used as swap.

cbagger01

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Posted: Aug. 01 2005,02:47

You can still use your 64MB drive.

Put DSL on the 64MB drive and then burn the gcc1.dsl file to a CD-R disk or better yet save it to somewhere on your hard drive like C:\

If your drive and laptop both support USB2.0 , DSL will run very fast from this device. Similar to a frugal hard drive install and much faster than a livecd normal mode.

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 01 2005,02:54

Another thing you can do is boot with "dsl dma".
This may improve the read speed of the cdrom drive. I know it works for multimedia, but I don't know what difference there may be with a standard data CD.

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