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Posted: Jan. 05 2006,18:06

I want to install DSL to my hard drive, should I be using frugal or not? What exactly does Frugal do that the normal mode doesn't?

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Posted: Jan. 05 2006,20:05

Frugal:
1. Takes up less space (only 50MB or less) for the OS because it's a compressed image just like the LiveCD.
2. Is not a writeable file system, just like the Live CD, therefore is less prone to corruption.
3. Because it's less prone to corruption, you can restore to a workable state by simply deleting your backup files in most cases.
4. Does not read and write to your media drives except on backup and restore, or when swapping. If you use toram, then everything is done in RAM with no writing to disk during processing. This saves your disk, which is very important to the disk life of flash memory drives, for example.
5. You can find more info in the documentation: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....pdfdocs

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Posted: Jan. 06 2006,00:31

I would highly recommend the frugal install. Having used a traditional HD install with Feather (Debian), I ran into dependency hell when trying to install new apps. Not that frugal is perfect, but I've found to be very usable with few problems.

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Posted: Jan. 09 2006,21:02

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Posted: Jan. 14 2006,02:36

Quote (starcannon @ Jan. 09 2006,16:02)

Frugal FTW!

Frugal is the way to go.
with frugal and persistent opt and home you can easily upgrade your DSL to any version you wish and if you dont like the update its as easy as booting from the dsl version disk of your choice dsl 2, mke2fs -j hdx, and then frugal_install.sh and your back up and running with wichever version was on the cd you booted from.

Also when you decide to have dsl packages load on bootup just symlink the files into the /cdrom directory off the root directory, this is NOT the same as the /mnt/auto/cdrom, and as stupid as it sounds that was my biggest stumbling block as i didn't understand at first that they were completely seperate and different.
so symlinks to your DSL extensions go in:
/cdrom
and compact disks go in:
/mnt/auto/cdrom

anyway maybe you go that figured out already but thought i'd share my understanding as it took me awhile to get it

Rob

I wish I knew more about linux so I could understand what you're talking about. How do you create a symbolic link (a symlink is geek-speak for symbolic link, yes?) to the /cdrom directory?

And where do you actually put the dsl file itself so it's persistent? In the /home/dsl or /opt directory? Why do you have to symbolically link it to the /cdrom directory? I haven't read anywhere else that I have to do that.

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