doobit
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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,15:27 |
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A frugal install loads most of the operating system in memory, at least as much as it can given the size of your memory. The rest uses your swap space as if it were memory. When you open a mydsl package with a Frugal install, it creates simulated links to the appropriate directories needed to run the application, but they are temporary, in the ramdisk, or swap file. The operating system and included apps in Frugal is a compressed image on a non-writeable file system, just like on the liveCD, so you don't compile stuff into the kernel the same way you would with a Debian style install (that's where you need apt and Synaptic). The myDSL packages, for the most part, are created with Frugal in mind, to run by unpacking on-the-fly as they are needed, in memory or on the swap file. You need to make sure you have enough memory and swap space to unpack them into and enough left over to run them. I think I am correct in this, and if not, then someone correct me.
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