mikshaw
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Posted: Jan. 17 2006,15:49 |
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| Quote | | When going for option1, that is, put every .dsl extension that I need to be present at each boot in /cdrom, should I add or remove anything to the GRUB command line ? Should'nt I take out the "frugal" option ? |
No need to do that. /cdrom is the base of frugal installation, which is the default location where the boot script looks for them. The frugal option should remain if you want to be able to write to /cdrom (e.g. add more extensions).
| Quote | When going for option2, can I create a "MyDSL" dir in "/" if I can't create another partition ? My scheme is :
hda1 NTFS 1Gb resized by ntfsresize using RIP.
hda2 swap 256Mb
hda3 /home 500Mb
hda4 / 1500Mb
So nope, no specific MyDSL partition... Is there a way to use a directory ? And if so, how to tell DSL to look for MyDSL exts in it ?. |
If you create anything in "/", it will be gone when you reboot. If you do not have a separate partition, or some other disk like a pendrive or cd, then you MUST put your files in /cdrom. This is the only persistent place in the frugal system. However, you have hda3 there, which could be used. If you add the packages to the root of hda3, you can use the boot option "mydsl=hda3". Or if you put them in /home/dsl/mydsl (for example), you should be able to use the boot option "mydsl=hda3/home/dsl/mydsl". I have personally never auto-loaded extensions stored in a persistent home, so i'm not positive it works...i think it should, though.
EDIT: I'm now using a persistent home on hda3 (suse system on reiserfs), with a /home/dsl/mydsl directory. Using the boot option "mydsl=hda3/home/dsl/mydsl" works as expected. The old extensions that are still hanging around in /cdrom/optional are found as well...not sure i like that, but it doesn't really matter since i'm going to delete all the extra stuff from /cdrom after completing my new setup. The ext2 filesystem isn't really very reliable when you are constantly writing to it.
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