ke4nt1
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Posted: Oct. 15 2004,17:56 |
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What you have is commonly named a "poorman's" install..
They are great, and I use them frequently on different systems..
It's faster than reading from CD,
while giving you all the options and benefits of a liveCD system..
I was jokingly refering to a true HDInstall ..
While I don't use them, for slower or ram challenged systems, they work better..
I prefer all the benefits that come with the liveCD/poorman's systems.
My #1 would be the " Reboot Factor" ..
I trash my system daily, trying different hardware, testing extensions,
building extensions from various sources and repositories..
( I enjoy grabbing stuff from the "experimental" and "third party" repositories. )
Sometimes I add the kernel sources or the gcc and make utilities when it is
required to work from a source or work with a build ..etc..
It's SO NICE to be able to reboot, restore from backup, and have
all my personal settings and favorite programs right where I left them,
and confident of WHAT is installed on my system when I start trashing it again !
My #2 would be the " Source Factor " ..
Where I can use any number of sources to bootup my system.
Like you do with your "CD copy to HD" poorman's install ,
I also like to run from CF, or USBkey, HD, CD, CDRW, DVD..
anywhere where I can get DSL to find the /KNOPPIX folder ..
Likewise with the location of my backups and apps/extensions ..
My #3 would be the " Options Factor "
It's SO NICE to be able to bootup with different options "on the fly" ,
without editing lilo.conf, rerunning lilo, etc.. etc..
I frequently pick from several partitions for my "restore=" options,
my "mydsl=" locations, my "fromhd=" options, to give me various
groups of extensions and different setups/desktops/menus for a
unique need I may have.
So, myDSL is truly MY DSL , depending on my needs, mood, requirements, etc..
Sometimes, like when testing new extensions, I really need to test them from
a pristine environment, others with a pristine env + dsl-dpkg or gnu-utils added.
Othertimes, like when I'm making a screenshot of an app, or giving a curious
newb an eyeful of DSL, I'll go for my "eye candy" version, that I have on
another partition, with it's own backup..
It's nice to be able to choose any these from bootup..
It is true that I have a HDInstall in my systems as well,
since testing new DSL pre-releases in a HDInstall environment is necessary.
But they are typicaly "fresh installs" , since I can't be sure that the last
app or extension I just installed had libs in it that my next test may require..
I won't see the app scream for it if I left it in there from my last test session.
Again, the beauty of My #1 presides....
So, yes and no is my answer to you, AwPhuch..
I was "joking" , but I do prefer the power and flexibility of myDSL
and the bootup options of DSL live, over the speed and more
normal install method of running completely from the HDinstall .
I used to think that HDInstalls were the way-to-go, since all the other distros
were ran that way, and that the "liveCD" was just a "demo-mode" to get
a taste of how it would run. No More..
I run other distros on some of my computers.
I keep up with fedora core, AGNULA/DeMuDi, and some of the other
smaller distros like DSL..
But each day, I find myself right here in myDSL .. Home-Schweet-Home...
73
ke4nt
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