Best small -600mb Frugal Debian or Debian-based Distro's??
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Frugal means it runs as a livecd
meaning the squashfs is read-only
and it also means it runs persistent
wherein all apps,settings added are persistent at every boot
Frugal is the reverse of a hd install
You can "break" a fully installed system
you can't really break a frugal system, as you can just delete your saves and start anew
sidux can boot frugal from hd/usb
as can debian-live,grml, hag, etc
Frugal means it runs as a livecd
meaning the squashfs is read-only
and it also means it runs persistent
wherein all apps,settings added are persistent at every boot
good. thanks ( i first read it at dsl and never really did know what it might mean).
just unzip to usb or a hd partition thats using grub, or syslinux
I boot most of the frugals from my ubuntu partition
yep
you can link your existing grub menu.lst to the thorshammer menu.lst(s)
by adding this to your grub menu.lst
assuming your putting all of thors hammer on hda1
Code:
title ThorsHammer
root (hd0,0)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
and, so, you can get back to your menu.lst
assuming your booting menu.lst is on hda3
make this entry in the thorshammer menu.lst
Code:
title <<---Back to My HD Menu
root (hd0,2)
configfile /boot/grub/menu.lst
heres thorshammer menu.lst
Code:
default 0
timeout 10
color red/black light-red/black
title Plop
root (hd0,0)
kernel /plpbt
title Utilities Menu
root (hd0,0)
configfile /boot/grub/utils-menu.lst
title GRML-Magix 083009 Menu
root (hd0,0)
configfile /boot/grub/grml-menu.lst
title DarkMagic-4.4 Menu
root (hd0,0)
configfile /boot/grub/pmagic-menu.lst
title RescuePup-Beta Menu
root (hd0,0)
configfile /boot/grub/pup-menu.lst
title Slackware-13 Mini (Alien Bob's)
root (hd0,0)
configfile /boot/grub/slk-menu.lst
title ZorOS-3.6 Menu
root (hd0,0)
configfile /boot/grub/zoros-menu.lst
i downloaded and burned it yesterday, but ran into some other trouble.
im now posting from the ThorHammer grml Cd:
Wow.
heres a shot: http://xs343.xs.to/xs343/09382/grml892.png
its a bit unsharp, dunno why, on my screen its like a razor.
iŽll check for the other distros on the cd, but so far grml is enough.
greetings
trouble is unrelated to your Cd, i followed a kernel-compile-how-to...first one didnt boot, second had no net-connection, than it worked, than i had trouble in virtualbox...never mind.
i had a look at one of the other distros, might be its partimage? (something with dark in the title, with clonezilla and G4* or so). I guess i`ll try to put the zip on an usb-stick, but later.
Yep, grml is cool, but you have added some nice wallpapers and good apps.
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