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Posted: July 04 2007,14:13 QUOTE
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Will there be a future version of DSL that returns to the previous method of not loading entirely into RAM? I know a lot of hardware I've put into use (and still have in use) that won't meet the new ram requirements.

Only the initrd (initial ramdisk) edition loads into ram. It is only dsl-3.4-initrd.iso that requires the increase memory. This initrd edition is primarily for those looking for an easy deployment of a PXE ready DSL image to be placed on a PXE server. I created this as a bootable isolinux image because it is also useful for systems that have increased memory and wish to avoid the searching for KNOPPIX image.

The others DSL editions remain as before.
Use dsl-3.4-syslinux.iso if your hardware will not boot from the isolinux edition, dsl-3.4.iso.  There is no change in boot time memory requirements. These are the same as we have been using and should boot as prior versions of DSL.

Of course, on these standard editions, you can always use the boot option 'toram' to load and run from ram. The capability of running entirely from ram is nothing new for DSL.
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Posted: July 04 2007,14:18 QUOTE
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I tried this too. Nice to see the line "running dsl-3.4" along with no more line about automounter. Why weren't these mentioned in changelog?


Because I am forgetful. Should have been in the RC change log as they were adjustments I did early on.
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Posted: July 04 2007,15:57 QUOTE
Robert,

I noticed something peculiar when I booted 3.4 installed to hard drive (not frugal -- wanted to use this to test something) via dsl install at boot.

I usually use LILO but decided to try GRUB for a change. I selected the first GRUB line option and noticed when it started to boot that it the line included frugal even though it wasn't a frugal install. After booting, I went to mount a CDROM that I use for MyDSL extensions and it wouldn't mount at /cdrom. So I went through /mnt/auto to mount cdrom there. I started to wonder if I'd installed frugal so I looked at stats and saw that the partition is indeed 197.1 MB used with the rest free.

After editing menu.lst, I rebooted and all is well aside from those two mount points. I tried mounting a floppy. Same thing as the CDROM. It wasn't mounting at /floppy, but I could in /mnt/auto.

The most recent hard drive install I did was 3.1 (LILO, not GRUB) and I don't recall an issue like this. I don't know if you've changed dsl-hdinstall recently, but it's not a major problem and I've fixed it with a quick edit. Just thought you should know about it for future reference.

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Posted: July 04 2007,16:37 QUOTE
There has been no change to the traditional hard drive install script.
The embedded grub and its menu.lst used during install script is shared between frugal and traditional. The option frugal should be a throw-away for traditional.
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The option frugal should be a throw-away for traditional.
As far as I can tell from a very brief peek at dsl-config, the frugal boot option simply tries to remount /cdrom read-write (redirecting output to /dev/null), so I guess that wouldn't have any effect on a debian-style install (no /cdrom?).

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