Damn Small Linux Frugal install
I am attempting to do a frugal install similar to a knoppix poorman's install of DSL. I am unsure what to do. The directions from here are incomplete and unclear on some things.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...rugalHowto.pdf I am probably not doing this exactly the way this guide intended, but it unclear on what should be done, so I am not sure. Here is what I have done. I added the hard drive I plan on using to another working computer with Debian Etch testing unstable. The computer for DSL can boot from a cd, but my cd burner is bad, so I couldn't create a DSL cd. How else am I going to put the cd image on the partition created for it? I used fdisk to create the partitions. After using fdisk I did these things. Code:
debian:~# mke2fs /dev/hda1 |
Why not install Frugal from the release CD? They have a netinstall CD as well, unless theres something I'm missing here...
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You are missing something. I don't have a working CD burner anymore. All those other ways of installing are good for people with CD burners or the ones who want to buy Linux. That's why network install floppies are useful. I got someone to burn damn small linux for me. My computer seems like it bit the dust. I took everything out except the video card and cpu and still, I see nothing when booting. I tried other video cards, so my guess is that the mobo died. Not long ago, I was able to boot the Solaris cd on it, but that failed. That had nothing to do with my computer being bad, just that Solaris hardware support for x86 sucks out of the box.
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Ahh kk.
Basically, all you'd need is to get hold of a base list of packages you need for a Frugalware install. Download pacman-3.3.9-1-i686.fpm and extract that to /. The fpm files are just bzipped tarballs. Then mount your Frugalware root and install the base packages to there with pacman, it'd be easier to use a few switches to force the install: Code:
pacman -Udf ftp://...base-packages.fpm --root=/mnt/frugal |
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