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SuperLou

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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,02:31

Larkl, I used the mydsl-load with grub.dsl. I haven't had much luck with grub floppies. Inside the boot folder there should a folder "grub" and then a menu.lst file. You can stick stuff in there once you get a successful sequence of commands. Have you seen http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/135? Or if you have irc, the #grub on irc.freenode.net is good.

victory, good point, i forget what is the script that justs sets up dsl without affecting the MBR. I thought that grub setup, lilio setup, and dsl setup are all seperate scripts so you should be able to just install dsl and configure the menu.lst manually to find the dsl install.

petit982

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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,06:31

Hi. I've done a frugal installation: very fast and very good.
But I've a problem: I can't modify "lilo.conf" file... (obviously as root user...)
System tells me that the filesystem is not writeable...
Also I can't modify writing permissions with "chmod" command...

--> Anyone know how to solve this problem?? <--

Thank's

larkl

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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,12:33

OK,

I got grub installed. What I was doing was answering NO to the format HD query when I ran the script. I already had a frugal-lilo installed and I guess I thought I didn't need to. Thanks for the help. Got to get menu.lst modified now.

SuperLou

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Posted: Sep. 19 2005,13:17

Petit982, I was in the same situation as you. I think it has something to do with the nature of the frugal and there was some linux witchcraft involved in trying to crack that file open. I never figured it out, it always complained that i hadn't edited it no matter how hard I tried. If you are able to, I would suggest switching to the GRUB bootloader which is worlds easier to use (although some folk say it has greater adaptability or somewhatnot I believe). Check out this http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....1;st=15 for editing lilo. Haven't tried it myself. Goodluck.