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izezi · Joined: 19 Mar 2012 Posts: 58

Don't feel bad, dude. Smile

X stopped working on my FreeBSD 7.4 laptop and I've been trying to get it going again for the past day. so I know how you feel Razz

nitehawk · Joined: 13 Apr 2008 Posts: 487 Location: Florida, USA

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1494 Location: Ontario Canada

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9382 Location: SwedenEurope

I did a full install of Bodhi Linux on a Dell Dimension 4600 old P4
machine.

Then I did dual boot on the grub2 but that where more difficult than I
anticipated.

Some menuentries has " and some have ' around text.

It also seems to need root=uuid for the root partition.

But I am not sure.

Anyway would would be best to install on next free ext3 partition?

I have never had PCLinuOS booted before so that maybe is a good one
to test now when I have normal standard set up with ext3 and full install?

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9382 Location: SwedenEurope

Finally found a way to boot Ubuntu and LinuxMint grub2
full install together with Puppy Linux and also other grub1
frugal booting distros like PCLinuxOS

To get frugal install persistance using PCLinuxOS then
use this code changes_dev=/dev/sda1

Here are my my entries on grub2

menuentry "pclinuxos-phoenix-2012-02.iso" {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set xxxxxxx
linux (hd0,1)/isolinux/vmlinuz root=UUID=xxxxxxx BOOT_IMAGE=LiveCD livecd=livecd initrd=initrd.gz bootfrom=/dev/sda1 changes_dev=/dev/sda1 acpi=on fstab=rw,auto
initrd (hd0,1)/isolinux/initrd.gz
}

menuentry 'lupu puppy frugal install ext3 on sda1' {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set xxx
linux /lupu528/vmlinuz root=UUID=xxx psubdir=/lupu528 pcie_aspm=force
initrd /lupu528/initrd.gz
}

The sda1 is formatted to ext3

Guys the embarrassing thing is that it took me 2012 -2008= 4 years
to learn it. Why did not somebody tell me straight away already 2008?

Such is very surprising to me. My attitude is that if one can do something
then one share it so many others also can do it. Not to keep it a secret Smile

Edit. To make correct the text above.

PCLOS could do frugal install from 2010 so not 4 years but 2 years.
And it only works on Linux formatted drives.

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1224

Well done nooby! I'll bear that in mind if I ever need to install several grub-booting distros side by side like those.

Thanks to whoever it was who suggested Quelitu as a distro for old computers. I installed it yesterday and am posting from it now. It's working great (and I still have my Arch Linux installation on my other hard drive partition). I think Mint looks a bit better to be honest but Quelitu's ability to run with fewer system resources more than makes up for that on an eleven year old machine like mine.

Cheers,

CP .

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1224

Sadly that didn't last long - I found the application repositories Quelitu was able to access were much more limited than Mint 12's, so I'm back using that instead. I had to clear some of my old Puppies off the drive and, of Puppies, am now just using Tttuuxxx's Classic Pup for the time being.