RoGuE_StreaK
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Posted: Jan. 14 2006,05:59 |
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You don't really have to do any linking. Or much of anything. The install scripts do it all.
Basically, make a clean ext2 linux partition of maybe 55MB. I cheated and used Partition Magic, but there's plenty of info around on how to make a partition. This is where the "fake CD" is going to get permanently stored.
If you want your /home and /opt data to be persistent, you'll need space for them somewhere. For tidiness and ease of update, usually best to have these on a separate partition. Mine are sitting on my windows data partition ("D Drive").
And a swap partition may come in handy if you have low RAM.
Before jumping in over your head, boot with the liveCD, use the mount tool, and find out exactly which partition name this is; mount all of the partitions you can find, then in emelfm hit the "df" (disk free?) button down the bottom, and you should be able to tell from disk sizes as to which is which. Make a note of the name, eg hda5. Same for the /home and /opt partitions.
Then just find the "frugal grub install" (or similar) link in the menu, follow the prompts, and away you go. More indepth issues are addressed elsewhere in the forum.
Then to update the core image, you just go through the frugal install procedure again, point to a new DSL iso (be it file, liveCD, etc), and answer "n" to whether you want to format the partition. 1min later, updated install. MUCH easier than updating a standard HD install.
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anyway hope that clarified and rectified my previous post a bit, and hope i didnt mess up your install.