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Topic: Ready for Frugal, Need Help

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victorv

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Posted: Sep. 18 2005,16:44

I am getting ready to do a frugal install and need some help. I have a dual boot system with Win98 on hda1 and SimplyMepis Linux on hdb1 using the grub boot loader. I have partitioned and formated (ext2) hda2 for DSL image and hda3 for opt and home.

So here I am and what I need to know from here. The liveCD uses my Linux swap on hdb2 so I'm thinking the frugal will also and I want to use grub and just add Boot text to menu.lst for DSL. Am I right about the swap and can someone guide me the rest of the way through the install and tell me what boot text to add to the grub menu.lst? Thanks!

I like the LiveCD and want this insall so I can play with it more!

mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 18 2005,20:00

yes, your swap will work for frugal.

The KNOPPIX and boot directories should be copied into hda2.
Your grub entry could be something like this:
title DSL
kernel (hd0,1)/boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda2 dsl frugal opt=hda3 home=hda3 vga=794 dma
initrd (hd0,1)/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz

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victorv

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Posted: Sep. 18 2005,20:12

Thanks for the reply,
What about lilo? I don't want it to install.

mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 18 2005,22:25

If you just copy the directories over manually, that's the install. You're done. Lilo is added only if you install using the frugal installer script, which is unnecessary since you already have a useable bootloader.

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