Could someone please guide me regarding how to do "frugal installation" of SalixOS on a hard disk.

Have you Read The Fine Manual?
http://people.salixos.org/tsuren/doc....37_draft4.pdf

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Yes, I had downloaded that large manual and checked this there. There is not even a single time the word 'frugal' is mentioned. It details very well the standard methods of installation. But I know that salix can be installed in a 'frugal' mannner, in which all the files and folders from livecd are copied to a partition and the grub entry is placed so as to load and run the system.

First, an apology. Somehow I took "frugal install" as "core install".

The following describes how to put the live version on a usb stick:
http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.ph..._on_an_USB_key
The procedure could obviously be adapted to put it on a HD partition.

But I presume you want something like Ubuntu's Wubi, that will put the stuff in a Windows file, with no partitioning? This thread should give you some ideas
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-linux-657994/
but there doesn't seem to be a plain guide. I don't think it's a common procedure (except with Puppy and Ubuntu), probably because the live usb method is simpler.