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Topic: Frugal Install Bootline Commands, Where should you indicate mydsl?

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zubalove

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Posted: Oct. 31 2005,19:50

A few months ago I did a frugle install. It went well, but for some reason it didn't create /opt on the specified hda. However I did manage to get mydsl extensions recognized by specifying mydsl=hda3 in the bootline commands of the install.

Now I'm reinstalling and I can't get anything to work right.

My questions:

The frugal install PDF indicates NOT to enter a mydsl location in the bootline commands. Is this correct?

When entering the commands, how should they be entered? Which, if any, need to be prefaced with "dsl"?

Are these frugle install problems native to certain releases? I'm using 1.4 until 2.0 is released. Are there any changes to the frugal installer in 1.5?

Thank you for any help.

adssse

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Posted: Nov. 01 2005,02:25

Personally I prefer grub over lilo. To do this I believe you can just boot with a cd and run /usr/sbin/frugal_grub.sh, after that I believe all thats left is to tell it your partition and than install. It doesnt have all of the questions that frugal_install.sh does. After it installs you can enter your boot options into /boot/grub/menu.lst

NettoBr

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Posted: Nov. 22 2005,10:48

Quote (adssse @ Oct. 31 2005,21:25)

Hi Guys,

No I cannot change anything on /boot/grub...

I've made a Frugal Install and a install_grub after that.

Made a mkwriteable, but everything is still Read-Only.

Looks like mkwriteable runs ony once.

I want to change default and vga parameter.

I'm running DSL 2 RC2 on a Toshiba 2180CDT, and it's so good

HDA1 - Win98

HDA5 - EXT2 - for home and opt (485 MB)

HDA6 - EXT2 - for / (65 MB)

HDA7 - for swap (125 MB)

How can I change boot options if everything is RO???

Thanks from Brazil.

NettoBr

mark_one

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Posted: Nov. 22 2005,14:54

hi.

maybe your'e trying to modify the grub menu.lst that's inside the knoppix image. that isn't possible because the image is mounted read only. if you type 'mount' you should see something like this:

/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /cdrom type ext2 (rw)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
...and so on...

what you have to do is to modify the menu.lst that is used for booting. in my case it's inside the /cdrom/boot/grub/ folder.
i know that it's a bit irritating because there are two boot folders.

greetings

mark

NettoBr

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Posted: Nov. 22 2005,17:33

Hello Mark-One,

Thanks for your correct reply, right to the point.

This is not irritating, what is irritating, boring, son of a gun, is that I've already done this in sudo su mode, but nothing happened, but after your reply everything happens.

May be a problem of BIOS, Been Irritating Operating the System.

Thanks a lot.

NettoBr.

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