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curaga

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Posted: May 12 2007,08:41

Frugal can have booting & KNOPPIX on the same partition. But exactly, I am using a Hd-install, not frugal. And since I've customized it so far from being DSL, I would have no use in upgrading. It already has everything I want, and an upgrade would need me making all those things again. No thanks ;)

And my modified DSL beats all my friends' XP comps with over 3Ghz horsepower in booting & using!
I like that fact.. Even though this comp was made in -96 (I think..)..

Upgrading frugal is easy, just replace the KNOPPIX file with the newer DSL's KNOPPIX. That's it, all your settings & added programs stay with you..

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mikshaw

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Posted: May 12 2007,13:48

Code Sample

[ROOT]: fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1458 11711353+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 1561 1691 1052257+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 1692 4870 25535317+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1459 1560 819315 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

hda1 = Slackware, on 12gb Reiser file system
hda3 = Persistent home for DSL and a mostly unused Suse system, on 25gb Reiser file system
hda4= multiple frugal DSL versions on 788mb ext2 file system

Upgrading is simple. Boot "toram" and overwrite the KNOPPIX file. In my case, though, I tend to keep two or more KNOPPIX vrsions installed together so if I have problems with a new release I can easily reboot into the previous version. This also allows me to upgrade one DSL system from within another (provided I'm using the "frugal" boot option).

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curaga

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Posted: May 12 2007,13:52

Hey mik, DSL doesn't support reiser. You added something to use reiser on your home partition?

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mikshaw

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Posted: May 12 2007,14:05

DSL does support reiser, but not as the root file system. I guess the module must be loading at some later point. I've been mounting this same partition in DSL since 0.7.

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