HD Install :: Why Do an HD install ?

Hope you flash device doesn't die. They have limited writes.

Quote (VorlonFog @ April 04 2006,15:00)

Once the configuration is working, I'd like to keep it fixed :cool:

and static, so I prefer the hard-disk install, where I can tweak to my heart's content while still maintaining the small footprint of DSL.

Or can someone suggest a

better way?

Yes, use Frugal with the apps you need saved to the top directory. They will load automatically everytime you boot. The mydsl=hda1 and restore=hda1 bootoptions can be put in place when you install, or using a grub install they can be edited into the grub menu.lst file. That way you limit the number of read/writes on your CF disk to bootup and shutdown and the settings and apps are the same everytime.

joer: CF life is approximately 10,000 writes minimum, 50,000 writes maximum. I'm not making a swap partition and only running the browser to display a touchpanel for media center control. So, writes to disk will be almost zero once everything is setup.

bdoobit: Thank you for the frugal install and grub menu.lst suggestions! When you suggest saving apps to the top directory which path is that?

Flash device running frugal is usually mounted at /cdrom
So extensions placed in /cdrom will autoload.

Limited writes, be sure your browser's cache is set to zero, or point it to a ramdisk and limit its cache size.

This is hard to define and I think there needs to be some standard wording for it in the Linux community. I'm speaking of the same directory that KNOPPIX is in. It's the one you get to when you type cd ~ in a terminal. In Windows it's the root directory, but you can't call it that in Linux.

Also, FYI, beginning with DSL-2.3 you can create a new directory called /mydsl and put the extentions inside that instead of the top directory, and DSL will find them. This directory can be placed on a pendrive so you can use the live CD for bootup and put dsl mydsl=sda1 restore=sda1 in the bootline and your settings and apps will be loaded everytime as long as the pendrive is plugged in when you boot from the CD.

<edit since robert posted> I forgot about the /cdrom mount point for CF.

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