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Poul

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Posted: Sep. 12 2006,01:59

Hi, All.

I run DSL frugal on an old laptop Toshiba Portege 3020ct. Everything works fine.

The only problem I have is myDSL extension load.
I use zile, gcc1 and some others. During boot, zile is loaded fine, gcc1 load reports "no space left on device", then the whole DSL fails to load some files from HD and X fails to start.

The more packages I use, the more packages load reports "no space" :-)

Yes, I am aware that "All .dsl - changes base liveCD system". In my case it seems like 96MB RAM is not big enough to hold (more than one) packages loaded.

I read that I can use .uci version of packages, but I can't find .uci for those zile and gcc. I doubt I can prepare them my-self.

Are there other ways to reduce memory usage by .dsl packages loaded?

Perhaps, mounting something like
mount /usr/sbin /dev/hdaX/usr/sbin (where hdaX is my large HD drive) at bootlocal.sh can help?
Perhaps, cheat codes, but I do not see how. I did couple of experiments with no success.
Something else?

The laptop hardware can be found under the link above.
/dev/hda1 - DSL image (60mb)
/dev/hda2 - swap (200mb)
/dev/hda3 - file storage (~6gb)

Well, let me add that I am new in Linux installation. I did a lot of development under it, but no installation...

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Posted: Sep. 12 2006,13:30

Are you using DSL v3? You can utilize unionfs type extensions (.unc).
You could also remaster the dsl image.
Making .uci's is probably the hardest :P

If you want to increase your virtual memory, I think increasing your 200mb swap might be a good idea (try at least 512mb for starters)

Poul

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Posted: Sep. 12 2006,22:25

Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Sep. 12 2006,09:30)

Are you using DSL v3? You can utilize unionfs type extensions (.unc).

Yes.

Thanks for the direction, i'll have a look at unionfs and post here if the problem is solved.

Poul

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Posted: Sep. 13 2006,23:17

Solved.

It seems like my fault.
I did a lot of experiments and I removed "toram" option. I don't remember when I did it. That's why I didn't even think about the option while trying to solve the problem.

So, now when toram option is on everything works fine.

Thank you, guys.

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