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Topic: I don't know nothing about frugal ! ! !, I'm getting crazy finding it. HELP

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godzilla

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Posted: June 26 2006,16:32

Ok I will explain my situation and I hope somebody will help me this time. Everybody is talking about an Easy way for installing the system on the HD called "frugal". I'm running DSL with a floppy disk and the uncompressed .ISO at C:/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX and C:/KNOPPIX/BOOT/. . .
When I run the system, it is just running without being installed. So I know that if I want the system to be on the HD, Ihave to install it. Everybody is talking about the frugal install, but I have to say that I can't find any info of it at the Wiki, and nowhere on the forums. That's a faulty treatment of the information. My computer is a Toshiba Libretto 50M. It does not has any mouse on it, so it has only a touchscreen. I can't execute anything when the system is running. I know too that it will work probably with Xfree86.dsl properly configured. I can't do that until the system is installed. So, can somebody explain me step by step, more or less . . . how can I do a frugal install now ? I will look for the rest myself if needed. I posted three or four times before and nobody answers my posts. Thank you.

piccolo

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Posted: June 26 2006,17:14

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Everybody is talking about the frugal install, but I have to say that I can't find any info of it at the Wiki, and nowhere on the forums. That's a faulty treatment of the information.

I agree you and I'm sorry nobody answers your posts.

Frugal Howto

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Robin Hood used Linux

godzilla

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Posted: June 26 2006,19:23

Thanks for this how-to. Do you know how can I start a PCMCIA CD having only 1 PCMCIA slot ? My HD was giving me lots of errors after trying all the things and I deleted all the partitions. Now I have no way to put the CD image in the HD again. So when I boot with the floppy I can't walk that further anymore. Is there a way to copy the image of the CD to the HD again ? Thank you, your help is much appreciated.

piccolo

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Posted: June 26 2006,20:17

DSL should to able boot from a pcmcia CDROM drive using the boot floppy as you did before with the KNOPPIX file.

Other Methods:

-I never tested this but you could copy files from CDROM to hard disk using this boot floppy:
http://www.toms.net/rb/
Infact there are a method to install DSL using only floppy disks with that "no DSL" boot floppy.
Floppy Only Install

-I guess it is more easy, to connect the hard disk to another computer to copy the files.

IMPORTANT: If you will install DSL to hard disk booting DSL from KNOPPIX folder on hard disk, then you must create one Linux partition of at least 60 MB and copy there the KNOPPIX folder.

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Robin Hood used Linux