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curaga

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Posted: May 11 2007,15:51

OK. My main comp (laptop) is like this:
hda1 - 2 gb - fat32 - win2000
hda2 - 256 mb - swap
hda3 - 5 gb - ext3 - my distro
hda4 - the rest, about 13,5 gb - fat32 - music, tv recordings and movies

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jhsu

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Posted: May 11 2007,16:38

Quote (curaga @ May 11 2007,11:51)

OK. My main comp (laptop) is like this:
hda1 - 2 gb - fat32 - win2000
hda2 - 256 mb - swap
hda3 - 5 gb - ext3 - my distro
hda4 - the rest, about 13,5 gb - fat32 - music, tv recordings and movies

Thanks for the example, curaga.

So if all your data (multimedia, photos, documents, etc.) is on hda4, does that mean all the configuration settings, boot-up programs, etc. are on hda3? Why do you have 5gb when DSL only occupies about 1% of it? What takes up the other 99%?

Is this a frugal install? If so, how do you upgrade when a new version of DSL is released?

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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

curaga

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Posted: May 11 2007,17:06

This isn't DSL, it's my distro. I call it Aero System (named it before Vista named its UI). It currently takes ~1 gb, but I like to keep the kernel source there, that is ~400mb. I keep all my Linux data on the Linux partition, and only the data I want to use from both OS's on hda4.

DSL hd install takes about 200 mb.. Maybe that wasn't a good example since it's not DSL. Here's my DSL comp (old desktop =) ):
hda1 - ~890 mb - ext2 - DSL hd install
hda2 - 128 mb - swap

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jhsu

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Posted: May 11 2007,18:59

Quote (curaga @ May 11 2007,13:06)

You're not fooling that it's an old desktop. That old computer with barely a 1GB hard drive must have been made around 1996-1997. (Thanks to the world of bloatware, computers aren't any faster today than they were back then.)

So you have hda1 for your DSL installation and 128MB for a swap drive. How do you upgrade DSL when a new version comes out? I thought the frugal install requires the booting portion and the stored data to be on different partitions.

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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