Rapidweather
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Posted: April 04 2004,14:40 |
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About the hard drive install...
I have one of my DSL remasters running on a 540 MB hard drive now, using my
"/knoppix" method, with a boot floppy detailed here:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/general_howto
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That way requires a boot floppy. I only have two partitions on this little drive, one
for /knoppix, and a swap partition. I restore from a floppy, as with this remaster, I
only need dial up settings for wvdial, and Sylpheed mail's /Mail, and .sylpheed.
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Later on today, I will completely redo this setup, and use /usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh
(A script by Robert Shingledecker to install from a live cd to the hard drive, included in 0.6.2)
For my partitions, I need more swap, so I will partition the drive with 150 mb for
Damn Small, 50 mb for restore, and the rest for Swap. I'll use bootE linux on
a floppy to do the partition and format work.
Then I'll boot the system up from my remastered cd, (as my original setup will be gone), and
run the script. I'll first go ahead and place the backup.tar.gz and the filetool.lst
in the restore (/dev/hda2) partition, as one of the items in the frugal_instal.sh
script asks about that.
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When done, I'll have a system that will boot using lilo (no more boot floppy),
and since it is done off a remaster, It will already have Firefox and wvdial,
which will keep the restore process to a miminum, size and time wise. I could
continue to use the floppy for restore, but since I will have both /upload and
/download directories in /home/damnsmall, and will possibly want to keep stuff
there, then I will go ahead and restore from the hard drive.
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I'll get back here when I have more to report. Hope some of this helps.
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Rapidweather Remaster of DSL:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/getting_started.html
Rapidweather Remaster of Knoppix Linux:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/getting_started.html
Screenshots:
http://www.rapidweather.com/linuxcdsales.html
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