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Topic: Frugal Install + extensions = too much ram used, I need to free up some of that ram.

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xmrkite

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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,05:56

Hello. When i do a traditional hard drive install and load mydsl extensions, they take up disk space. When i do a frugal install and load up mydsl extensions, they take up ram. I need to have them take up hard drive space and not ram.

I'm storing the mydsl extensions on a hda2, while the frugal partition is hda1. So since the extensions are "local" in one sense, why do they have to "load" into ram.

Any ideas or options?
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lucky13

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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,06:03

Yes, it helps to read the documentation. Start with booting with the cheatcode "base," which loads only DSL and not the extensions you have. See also:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Bootlocal.sh
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Cheat_Codes
(edit: changed link and added cheat code link)

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roberts

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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,15:00

Use uci type extensions.

xmrkite

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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,17:10

Thanks for the tips, but here's what i need to install:

cron30.dsl - small dsl
feh.dsl - small dsl
gnu-utils.dsl - big dsl, this one is killing my ram
imagemagick - i'll use the uci for it
rsync.dsl - small dsl
samba.dsl - kinda big dsl too
unclutter.dsl - small dsl
xbindkeys - small too

so the main two that are killing my ram are gnu-utils and samba. Any ideas on how to load these in a frugal install without using a lot of ram? The only reason i need gnu-utils is so i can get the full version of wget. I'm all ears to a better way to get the full wget. Also, would a remastering fix the high ram usage by somehow integrating those extensions into the iso file and not having to load up all the dsl extensions into ram?
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curaga

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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,17:17

Yes, remastering would remove all extra ram usage.

Other ways are turning those .dsl's to .unc's, which use less ram than .dsl's. There are some unc's for those already, gnu-utils.unc comes to mind.

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