mikshaw
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Posted: Aug. 08 2006,03:43 |
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the menu.lst file should be located at /cdrom/boot/menu.lst (or maybe it's /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst? I'm not sure...i boot DSL from grub installed in another distro). This file is probably read-only by default, being on a read-only file system. You can mount it read-write in at least two ways....
1) If you're already in DSL, issue the mount command on that partition with the remount rw option:
mount /dev/something -o remount rw
I'm not positive that's the proper syntax...never had much reason to remount partitions myself.
2) If you're booting up DSL, wait until Grub displays options to boot, select the DSL system you want to boot (up/down arrow keys to select), press "e" to edit the DSL entry, select the kernel line, press "e" again to edit that line, add "dsl frugal" to the kernel line, press "Enter", then press "b" to boot with your change. This is a temporary change...it will not be there the next time you boot.
After the system boots up, you will hopefully have a writeable partition. Go to the menu.lst file, find the kernel line for DSL, and add "dsl home=something" as root (something=hda1 or hdb2 or whatever you have available). The next time you boot, the partition you specified with "something" should be used as your home.
Note that this will not work if "something" is the same partition as the one containing KNOPPIX unless you also use the "toram" boot option. I wouldn't recommend it with 96mb of ram.
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