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larkl

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,12:11

OK,

My frugal install is working great. What a great way to run a PC (166 MHz Dell with 32 M RAM)! I'm not able to get the myDSL to restore (ie - they're not there after reboot). From the forums, I know that I need to add mydsl=hda3 to the APPEND line in lilo.conf. I also know that I can't edit this directly, as it's a sym link and it's read only. I know that I can re-boot from the CD and change this file. But, I've seen posts directing users to run frugal UPDATE. Is this just the normal frugall_install.sh script? If so, that's fine (it's not like it takes a long time). Or is there another script or a flag that I feed to the script to do an update? Thanks in advance.

adssse

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,20:36

Ya you can run the script again to update the append line in lilo.conf if you prefer that over updating lilo.conf directly. Just enter in what you need when it asks for your boot options and just answer 'n' to update and not format the partition.

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Posted: Sep. 17 2005,22:44

Larkl, i have had trouble with lilo and putting myDSL off of the partition holding iso image. It works all good and proper for me with the GRUB bootloader though. I've also found GRUB to be easier to handle and configure.

adssse

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Posted: Sep. 18 2005,02:45

I have to second SuperLou's recommendation. I just started using grub and I also prefer it over lilo. It seems much easier to modify and I was also able to avoid some problems that I had with lilo by using it, but use whatever your comfortable with.

larkl

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Posted: Sep. 18 2005,11:26

Thanks for the feedback. I'm confident that the install script is NOT changing the APPEND line in lilo.conf after trying it. What the heck, let's give grub a try.

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