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Topic: After Frugal Installation - no longer X Setup etc., save settings for ever

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x-ray

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Posted: Feb. 18 2006,14:45

What should I say, DSL looks really good and I want to use it.

After successful Frugal Instalation I don't want to put in at every start:
- Xvesa: xserver
- USB mouse: NO
- IMPS/2 mouse: YES
- screen resolution: 1024 x 768 pixel
- color depth: 32 bit
- own dpi ?: no
- Keyboard: de

It would be great to safe it on the cf card as default setting.

Is this possible?

What can I do to use default settings or something else?

Thanks.

x-ray

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Posted: Feb. 19 2006,06:41

Nobody here to help me?

larkl

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Posted: Feb. 19 2006,13:02

Here's some info that was found using the search...one

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hs7sv

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Posted: Feb. 19 2006,13:47

I made 2 partitions in CF. We can use hda2 for Backup/Restore by using cheatcode "restore=hda2" Below is a code sample in /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst

Code Sample

title DSL fb1024x768
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet apm=off acpi=on vga=791 noapic noapm dma noscsi frugal mydsl=hda2 restore=hda2
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

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x-ray

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Posted: Feb. 19 2006,14:32

I am working with LILO (not Grub) and it is working too.

I used the DSLpanel from the desktop and clicked on the Backup/Restore icon. Afterwards I put in the dedicated device (in my case sda1). The backup.tar.gz file was written! Then I copied the file backup.tar.gz in the same folder on hda1 like minirt24.gz is.
Then I changed the dedicated call (initrd) up in the lilo.conf from minirt24.gz to backup.tar.gz.
After reboot NO DSL X Setup comes up any more.

I am surprised and happy :-)

Thanks again.

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