Other Help Topics :: Booting a DSL Poorman's with Grub or whatever your
Thought I would share since I got this up and going the other day. I recommend that everyone use Frugal when installing to a hard drive but some of us .dsl extension junkies like to have multiple poorman's installs for building and testing extensions and such.
Basically, after you have the compressed KNOPPIX image on the partition, copy the /boot folder from the DSL CD to the root of that same partition. After you have done this, edit the grub menu file as described in the doc project HERE
It works like a charm for me. Don't ask me why you use savedefault instead of the commands used on the other examples. I just know that was what I had to use while multiple booting with the grub that was part of Mepis Linux.
Good luck.
Chris
I already had the CD contents on hda4, for use with remastering, and already had grub installed, so i just added this to my existing menu.lst:
title DamnSmallLinux
kernel (hd0,3)/boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda4
initrd (hd0,3)/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
Boots with no problem....except the console resolution is unbearably small. I tried adding vga=791, like i have in suse, but it didn't work.
what do i need to use to get a decent rez?
EDIT: got it....
kernel (hd0,3)/boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda4 dsl vga=791 noicons dma
this is sweet =o)
Heya Chris/Mikshaw,
I'm just a little confused with the "poormans install"
terminology...It seems to me that a "Frugal" is basically
a copy of the live CD contents to the partition of your choice-
(as long as it's hda), maybe theres more to it than that.....
And then that naughty Lilo thing happens....
(gotta see if I can comment that out).
But I'm just a bit hung on what exactly a "poormans
install" means.
I'm a Frugal fan now, at least- it's almost indestructable.
Hope you don't mind clarifying for me and perhaps others!
NB-
Adraker Corporation attaches no meaning whatsoever
to the word "indestructable", and assumes no responsibility
for people attacking their DSL installations with percussive,
incendiary, or nuclear devices.
I honestly don't know what the difference is. I have the contents of the CD copied to a ext3 partition (/KNOPPIX and /boot), and load it via grub. It's basically the same as using a liveCD, except that it uses grub and it is located on the harddrive rather than a CD. I assume this is what is called poorman
I like this setup particularly because I don't have to use toram in order to use the cdrom, and I can set up multiple grub entries with different boot options using the same disk image
I see...
Thanks Mikshaw, I'm going to try that on my main
machine, just copy the /KNOPPIX and /boot parts,
that means no Lilo from Frugal script, which I like.
Then mod the Grub menu, in my case it's under Red
Hat.
Sounds like a good idea.
Nirvana, here I come.. wayhaay!!
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