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jhsu

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Posted: May 10 2007,18:30

I get the feeling there's something important about partitions that I'm missing, but I don't know what it is.

I'd like to see what the partitions are on your computers and what you have in each one. Seeing a variety of examples will help me understand things better.

Please go into command line, go to cfdisk, and copy-and-paste your partions and post them in your reply. And note what you have in hda1, hda2, etc.

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Current cheatcodes:
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal home=hda3 opt=hda3 restore=hda3 root=hda3

lucky13

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Posted: May 10 2007,21:38

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I'd like to see what the partitions are on your computers and what you have in each one.

Whose?

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go to cfdisk, and copy-and-paste your partions and post them in your reply

Just do "sudo fdisk -l" -- faster and easier.

If you don't know what you're looking for, how will anyone else? It's pretty straightforward with frugal -- three partitions. You need a swap partition, one for the DSL image, and another for your /home, /opt, and backup.

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jhsu

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Posted: May 11 2007,03:17

I've been having trouble with installing DSL to my hard drive. I need to make sure that I'm partitioning properly, so I need to see live examples of how it's done.

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Current cheatcodes:
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal home=hda3 opt=hda3 restore=hda3 root=hda3

lucky13

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Posted: May 11 2007,08:28

Live examples? In person, video?

This computer isn't frugal, but my normal rule of thumb is 2x RAM for swap, 55MB for DSL image, and however much I can spare for /home + /opt + backup.

What are you doing and what problem are you having?

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"It felt kind of like having a pitbull terrier on my rear end."
-- meo (copyright(c)2008, all rights reserved)