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Topic: mydsl problem with frugal, I have a problem restoring mydsl apps

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roberts

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Posted: June 30 2005,23:46

OK. No problem using a 256MB CF with IDE adapter. Two partitions. One a 64MB system, the 2nd is the remaining for backup and mydsl. This is on an old 256MB old celeron system. Absolutely no problems. Entered hda2 for backup prompt and hda2 for mydsl prompt. I find it funny that *this* would come up as an issue now. I wrote this script specifically for CF-IDE devices back at dsl-0.6.0 and required two partitions as orginially I did not allow writes back to the system partition. I run three such CF-IDE system here for development.

mgmont

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Posted: July 01 2005,00:44

I have access to several old laptop comptuters at work and I just ordered a 44 pin adapter from the DSL store. When I receive the adapter, I will try this setup on the laptops and see if the problem might be hardware specific. I will let you know if my results vary.

roberts

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Posted: July 01 2005,04:10

You will like the CF in notebook computer. If you search the forums, you will see when I wrote about that long ago. A 233Mhz 32MB AMS Rodeo notebook computer no hard drive, just a CF with 44-pin adapter. I also run a CF in a Sony notebook. No hard drive to spin, so battery seems to last longer.

Like I said, I made the frugal script for CF based appliances, and thus hard to "breaK'. But this script is not recommended for hard drives hosting multiple OS. Or if you wish to change boot options often.

With the next release of DSL, I have written a frugal_grub script for an easy frugal grub install. This will be recommended for hard drives with windows or other OS.

adssse

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Posted: July 01 2005,04:33

I have a question. Right now I am using an old computer and installed frugal with a hd using hda1 for the filesystem, hda2 for backup/mydsl etc. and hda3 for swap. If I was using a CF would I have to do this without the swap so that I would not wear out the CF with so many writes? Just trying to understand how it would work in case I try it in the future.