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Topic: Frugul vs. Standard, Is there another way?

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Posted: Dec. 23 2005,15:14

I'm sitting down to try these now. I will checdk out that PDF file. My understanding is that the frugul install is best, just for that...upgrading. For some reason though, and correct me if I'm wrong, I thought the frugul install works off ram disks, which limits the amount of storage you can have. Is that true? Anyway, maybe that pdf will help...Going to go read it now.

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Posted: Dec. 23 2005,15:29

They all work off RAM disks to a certain extent. The OS loads as much information as it needs to operate into memory and then grabs the rest when you call for it by selecting an application or driver for a particular task. The difference is that Frugal is a compressed and locked package that gets uncompressed (and recompressed) on the fly. You can choose to run all 50MB of it in RAM if you have more thatn 128MB onboard, if you want to, by using the boot option "toram" , but that's an option. Also, having a swap file means that anything that won't or can't load into RAM will use the swap file as if it were RAM.

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Posted: Dec. 23 2005,16:31

Thanks, that clears things up a bit.

I have repartitioned hda1,5&6 as such:
hda1 500MB Linux Primary Boot
hda2 3GB Linux Primary
hda3 800MB Linux Swap Primary

after a failed install. Initially, hda2 & 3 were logical hda5 &6 but after running the int\stall script, the system could not mount hda5 so I figured I partitioned wrong. Trying again... BBIAB.

***UPDATE*** That PDF has typos in it. My issue with the first install was I didn't format the additional 2 partitions.

First typo in that PDF is /usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh - Instal.sh needs to be install.sh

Secone issue is the HDD format commands are wrong. A little googling and I got the correct syntax.

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Posted: Dec. 23 2005,17:34

Well that went very bad - first reboot - screen fils up with..

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Maybe because I partitioned the hda2 & 3 as primaries? Going to start all over again...

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Posted: Dec. 23 2005,17:41

I think lilo has to have hda as master or it goes nuts

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