Other Help Topics :: Booting a DSL Poorman's with Grub or whatever your

You are correct..

"frugal" is the compressed filesystem on your HD - lilo booted.

"poormans" is the same compressed filesystem on your HD,
booted from CD or floppy, instead of the lilo loader.

The addition of booting a "poormans" with a grub loader is akin to a
modified frugal.. Either way, it beats a HDInstall hands down in ease
of upgrading, restoring, and recovering from errant processes or options.

Besides offering different "boot options" at boottime, you can also
boot different installs. I have 3, an XFree86 version ( my usual ),
a stock Xvesa ( for testing ), and a third for compiles and dev..

73
ke4nt

Hey ke4nt1,

That says it clearly.
I may put Nirvana on hold-
I only have syslinux copy of DSL and may be
forced to use actual thinking.
Goosewebs!
Just when I'd slipped into lazy mode...

O.K. , time to share, in the tradition of
Clivesay.
After booting my plain vanilla copy of DSL 0.9.3,
(SYSLINUX) ,and copying the /KNOPPIX part,
I had no /boot directory to copy to
my target partition, so I shamefully used bits of
Roberts frugal_instal.sh script- manually.

Extract of script-

# Now we need to extract files from the floppy boot image stored
# in the Knoppix boot directory. We'll need them for booting from
# the hard drive... Start by creating a mount point for the floppy
# image:
mkdir /mnt/bootimage

#echo "${BLUE}Setting up boot image on ${MAGENTA}/mnt/$TARGET${NORMAL}"
# Now mount the boot.img file using the loopback driver
mount -t vfat -o loop $IMAGE/KNOPPIX/boot.img /mnt/bootimage

# On the target drive we need a place to put the boot files
mkdir /mnt/$TARGET/boot
# Now copy the files from the floppy boot image:
cp -af /mnt/bootimage/* /mnt/$TARGET/boot
# Again, the "f" flag only needed for subsequent updates
# I think only "linux24" and "minirt24.gz" files are needed, but the
# others don't take up much space.
sync;sync

End of Extract

I can be a Pirate too!
Modifying my Grub menu in my main distro worked fine.
The Frugal boots!
And no risk to MBR!!
I hope that there wasn't an easier way to do this.
I'll bet I've missed something terribly obvious.
For which I will later kick myself.
But I wasn't in thinking mode anyway.

now if you copy the KNOPPIX-file and the linux24 and minirt.gz of another dsl version in a directory named /dsl-version#
and use the bootparameter knoppix_dir=/dsl-version#
you can have more then one dsl version on the same partion. which is handy if you want to try a new version (or your new remaster)

if the /etc/init.d/dsl-config is modified a little like i sugest in dsl-extensions in folders
you can have a mydsl_dir= bootparameter so you can select which extensions to load at boot-time
this way you can select from a wide range of dsl setups from one partition

Dang, Henk I must have missed that post. That would be a real handy extra to have because, as you said, you could have multiple folders and boot multiple configurations from one compressed image.

John, Robert - Can we get this cheatcode enhancement in the base distro?

Chris

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