HD Install :: Pros and Cons of Full Hard Drive Install
I'm running DSL in Qemu on Ubuntu, and I did a HD install because I figured it would be faster than the live CD, and also wanted to keep the CD drive open for other purposes.
Then I discovered I can run it from an ISO image on the hard drive, so that freed the CD drive. But I couldn't figure out how to have a writable disk for adding programs and files to the ISO image, so I did the HD iinstall.
I'm a newbie just geeking around, still learning basic Linux stuff and having lots of fun. Quite thrilled to be able to zip back and forth between multiple systems without rebooting, and have something like Qemu to make experimenting so easy and fun.
I'll certainly look into the frugal install deal (embedded in Qemu), and hope that it's better than what I'm doing now.
Hey everyone
I've been using DSL for a while, but I'm new to these forums.
Anyway, I've managed to do a GRUB frugal install from my USB stick onto my old 233MHz laptop, and it works perfectly....except for one annoying thing.
Whenever I suspend the laptop (by closing the lid, for example), it fires back an "Input/Output" error as soon as it wakes up. The title bars and the on-screen statistics disappear too.
Did I do something wrong?
P.Soup.
P.S. You have every right to RTFM me if I posted in the wrong place 
You posted in the wrong place... 
There is a forum for USB installs. However, to help answer your question, the problem could have something to do with the power management of the laptop. (I'm guessing a little here, but anyway, that's where your problem starts) Try booting with the bootline commands dsl apm=off noapm. I'm not exactly sure, with USB installs, what happens to the information in memory when you suspend. I would think it would just stay there. I have not had this problem with my laptop, or my mini-itx box. They both come back cleanly into the previous state after suspending. I have set noapm on them and I also use the toram option so the entire OS is in RAM. Maybe you should also try that?
Sorry about the wrong posting place. N00b's fault : laugh :
I'll try the noapm boot option.
The only thing is, my laptop has only 64M of RAM on it, so I can't toram DSL. 
Meh.
P.Soup.
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