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Topic: Upgrading Frugal from 1.4 to 1.5, Only half worked

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Aussie

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Posted: Sep. 25 2005,06:27

Quote (adssse @ Sep. 25 2005,08:12)

As root, you can simply copy over the new files/directories from /etc/skel"

Thanks Adssse,

I didn't know about the "skeleton" directory. Lots of things hiding in there

Managed to get it right eventually with a lot of moving, editing and permission changes. You need a lot of DOS experience to understand what you're doing - not for the faint hearted!

Frugal still looks like a good way to go, but not for the average "Joe". But then again, I guess they would not be playing around with Linux in the first place.

At least I have successfully upgraded to the latest version - while still keeping my existing setup - which is what I'm looking for in a distro :cool:

Thanks guys,
Aussie

mikshaw

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Posted: Sep. 25 2005,16:36

It's not DOS, it's GNU =o)

The files in /etc are all owned by root. After copying the files from skel to /home/dsl/, the command "chown -R dsl.staff /home/dsl/" as root will fix it. This will recursively set ownership to dsl. Permissions will remain the same, but will be transferred to user dsl. For example, a file owned by root with the permissions 644 will not allow dsl to edit, but when ownership is transferred to dsl he now has write permission.

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stoneguy

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Posted: Sep. 25 2005,20:07

My 1.4->1.5 upgrade was a one-liner. My frugal boot partition is hda5, so all I did was burn the 1.5 ISO, boot from it, mount hda5, and

Code Sample

sudo cp /mnt/auto/cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX /mnt/hda5/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

Then shutdown, remove the CD, and reboot.

I don't know if it can always be that simple, but it was this time

Aussie

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Posted: Sep. 26 2005,04:40

Hi Stoneguy,

Everything is difficult for me

I'm at the bottom of a huge learning curve, but everyday I learn more.

I'm the sort of person that learns by "doing". Reading things only confuses me.

I'm sure my setup will be re-installed many times as I break it

It took me 20 years to learn to "control" DOS and Windows, hopefully understanding the structure and commands of Linux will be a little quicker!

But I'll keep your quote in mind for next time.

Aussie

doobit

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Posted: Sep. 26 2005,19:28

I found on some machines that you couldn't do a live CD frugal install from the boot install menu. You need to load up the live CD first, then right click on the desktop, pick system->tools and then Frugal install. Then it seemed to work just fine. After that you have choices in the Lilo or Grub configuration scripts to make persistant /opt and /home on separate partitions.

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