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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,18:53

1. Well livecd is a type of frugal... depends on what you chose during install (run `mount` and paste the output here if possible)
2. I believe theres a dialup tool in DSLPanel - but I haven't touched dial-up in a very long time.

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Posted: Jan. 23 2007,23:44

no to your #1, earlier. a Frugal install is a Hard drive install of the contents of the CD image, unchanged except for the bootloader stuff. It loads and backs up settings and home dir the same way as a cdrom boot.

Not that you need this necessarily, just a clarification. Your bootloader menu.lst (for grub) is the place to specify boot options. try looking for it in /boot/grub (though I don't know where it gets put in a hard drive install).

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Posted: Jan. 24 2007,00:53

Re #1: not necessarily just restricted to hard drives :P

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Posted: Jan. 25 2007,21:53

Hello,

the file for the bootoptions is in

/boot/grub/menu.lst

i changed it with:

- sudo -s
- beaver
- open the file, reaarenged the entries and saved it. Works fine...

If I'm running "mount" it says:

/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw....
/proc on ...
/dev/pts on ...
/proc/bus/usb on ...

And. yes, there is a dialup script in teh DSLPanel, it works fine for me, but I always have to choose the "provider" and push dialup. Would be nice to do this with a button on the desktop.

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Martin

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Posted: Jan. 25 2007,22:52

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I always have to choose the "provider" and push dialup. Would be nice to do this with a button on the desktop.

After setting up your dialup you can use the command "sudo pon" to connect to provider, and "sudo pon <whatever>" if your script is named something other than "provider".
The command "sudo poff" will disconnect.

You can create a desktop icon or hotkey combo to connect/disconnect more easily.

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