muskrat
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Posted: May 05 2006,00:15 |
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Ok clivesay;
Frist off let me express my gratatude to the developers, for a great OS. And I understand documentation is a differenet branch of development, but just as much work. Sometimes more work, depending on how fast an OS changes.
Frist off the Frugal install PDF, is great for the install of DSL in frugal. But due to the fact that the frugal install is basicly like the live CD, there are a number of issues that ariase later tring to configure the system.
So maybe it's not so much that the frugal install PDF is lacking, but rather is just the frist step, sort of a part one in a seres. Then maybe there should follow a Howto on configuring the system such as the boot loader, setting up passwords for root and DSL user, etc. Or maybe an indepth discussion of how and why the system is built the way it is, of course this could or should be a different Howto.
Of course I'm not asking except you ask me to ask. I believe there are quite a number of us average linux users that would enjoy the fruits of the frugal install if only we could get accross some of these potholes.
There is a couple of points on the current Frugal HD install PDF, these might have been fixed aready.
1st; There is a typo in the (At the command promt type: /usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh) it should read frugal_install.sh double L. And maybe add a note, that this is only for version 2.3 and above, because I tried it with version 2.0 and that file goes by another name.
2nd: This is a point of personal perferance, if you followed some of the book conventions in other Linux manuels and books, you wouldn't need those screen shots, again thats just my perference.
3rd: All over this board people are disscussing installing frugal with an option of choicing LiLo or Grub as boot loaders, this PDF doesn't mention this, and nether does frugal_install.sh script give you that option.
Ok torp; I downloaded the 2.3 and the 2.4rc2 nether of which will give you a option of bootloaders if you follow the directions in the frugal hd install PDF. Now maybe there's another way to approach, which if there is I sure like to know. Because I'll tell you this much I can't live with LiLo, LiLo and I are not on the best of trems.
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