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Posted: Jan. 26 2004,19:29 QUOTE
As mentioned, if you install to one partition, it'll stay there. However, after install, edit /etc/fstab and tell DSL to use the other partitions as well. Personally, I'd install it to /dev/hda1 (boot) and setup fstab to use /dev/hda2 as /home and hda4 as (something like) /usr.

If tomsrtbt has cfdisk, use that. Never used TomsRB myself though, so I'm not really of much help.

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Posted: Jan. 26 2004,20:56 QUOTE
O.K., I did the install and formated the other partitions. So now. How do I exactly edit /usr/fstab so DSL can use the other partitions?

Its very cool so far. I feel I can take this distro wherever I want. I just have to read a lot.

I also cant get sound to work. Even though DSL does seem to recognize the VIA soundchip at startup. Not even when running from CD.
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Posted: Jan. 27 2004,08:53 QUOTE
Quote (Morrison @ Jan. 26 2004,15:56)
O.K., I did the install and formated the other partitions. So now. How do I exactly edit /usr/fstab so DSL can use the other partitions?

Its very cool so far. I feel I can take this distro wherever I want. I just have to read a lot.

I also cant get sound to work. Even though DSL does seem to recognize the VIA soundchip at startup. Not even when running from CD.

I have the sound problem too, on both my computers. One is a Via that gives me trouble with some distros, and the other is a Sound Max that works with everything but DSL. I believe the problem is the lack of Alsa; I know that all the distros that work good using the sound on my computers use Alsa (checked in the control center of KDE).

That leads me to my question: if DSL is installed to the hd, can you just apt-get alsa? I'm asking because apt has always been troublesome to me (such-and-such depends such-and-such but isn't going to be installed or I need to remove 328 packages to install 21 packages...)

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Posted: Jan. 28 2004,05:36 QUOTE
O.K. I give up. For now.

I ended up installing Fedora Core 1, which is kinda Red Hat, but with that rebel "non-product feeling" I got.

Here's the deal. DSL is AWESOME, but apt-get is a huge problem. The cool thing would be to make DSL easily upgradeable. Putting a C compiler that can compile RPM or something. I don't know.

There's still a place in my heart (and my drive) for DSL. But if I can't get OpenOffice to work, I'm doomed.
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