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Posted: Mar. 28 2007,13:01 QUOTE
SOLVED-------------I have successfully got DSL frugal-grub on my hard drive and seems to be running fine on my celeron 700  128 ram  thinkpad.  I would like to try the toram option but I dont know where or how to do it being new to dsl and linux.
Could someone give me the detailed steps.
Thanks
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Posted: Mar. 28 2007,13:44 QUOTE
Two options....
Temporary:
When the Grub screen displays, select the system you want to boot and press "e" to edit the entry. You should be presented with at least a "kernel" line. Press "e" again to edit the selected line. Add "toram" (maybe it needs to be "dsl toram"?) to the line. Press "enter" to accept the change. Press "b" to boot.

Permanent:
Look for Grub's menu.lst file in /boot/grub on the partition where DSL was installed. This is the partition which has "boot" and "KNOPPIX" directories in its top level.
The menu.lst file should have at least one entry, which relates to the menu item or items listed at the grub screen. Add "toram" (maybe it needs to be "dsl toram"?) to the kernel line of your choice.

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Posted: Mar. 28 2007,20:48 QUOTE
Quote (mikshaw @ Mar. 28 2007,08:44)
Permanent:
Look for Grub's menu.lst file in /boot/grub on the partition where DSL was installed. This is the partition which has "boot" and "KNOPPIX" directories in its top level.
The menu.lst file should have at least one entry, which relates to the menu item or items listed at the grub screen. Add "toram" (maybe it needs to be "dsl toram"?) to the kernel line of your choice.

Thanks-I dont know how to get into the grub menu.lst-Where and how do I get into that?-sorry but Im still learning
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Posted: Mar. 28 2007,22:07 QUOTE
If stage 2 grub is installed on the same partition as dsl,
edit /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst
with any text editor (beaver, vi, nano, etc) using root privileges.
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Posted: Mar. 28 2007,23:26 QUOTE
Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Mar. 28 2007,17:07)
If stage 2 grub is installed on the same partition as dsl,
edit /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst
with any text editor (beaver, vi, nano, etc) using root privileges.



I thought I had the problem solved when I found out the LILO install gives the option of adding toram while setting up the installation.So I reinstalled using LILO instead of grub
However now it wont boot and I get this:
GRUB loading,wait.....
ERROR 15
I think this will be an easy fix -ANYONE?
Im into a new topic as I now have TORAM-so will do new post in Other Help Topics and mark this as solved.
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