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Posted: July 13 2005,16:26 QUOTE

The frugal command does two things.  It allows the superuser (user account called "root") to read and write to the boot device.  It also gets rid of the "Please remove the cd, close the drawer and press ENTER" message that appears during the shutdown process.  It may also do some other things, too. I don't know.

If you want to boot up with ignored xwindows settings, try booting with:

dsl frugal xsetup

and you will be prompted to set your configuration including mouse type.

When running a frugal install or a remaster, you should put your *.dsl or *.tar.gz or *.uci files inside the root directory of your storage device or cd-r disk.  If you want to optionally load them, you can create a new directory called /optional  inside your boot device and then store the files in this location.
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Posted: July 15 2005,20:45 QUOTE

Thanks,

I'm going to try 1.3 anyway but if I do a usb install, there's an error message when shutting down about unable to mount CD Rom (which I'm guessing is the knoppix virtual image ??) does it successfully save my settings ???

re frugal, could i in theory run a frugal usb key, change some stuff and then remaster a cd from the usb key ??

it would be useful to be able to use a boot cdrom for the usb, can I  do this by entering some commands at the dsl boot prompt ? so I've got a cd if I forget my key but boot from key otherwise ?

thanks
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Posted: July 15 2005,22:17 QUOTE

In theory you could use a USB drive for remastering.  Search for RAM remastering in the forums, it would be a similar approach.

RE: Cdrom to boot up the USB stick:

Try booting with

dsl fromhd=/dev/sda1

and see if it works.

The command is something like that, if I remember correctly.
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Posted: July 16 2005,21:28 QUOTE

it worked thanks
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