Is it possible to frugal-install AntiX to a Windows partition

[Member bci]

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olsztyn wrote:

As much time elapsed since discussion preceding this post (about two and half years):
– First: Congrats on your success.

Thank you!

– Could you explain how you ended up booting your Frugal antiX: Are you booting from a Grub entry, from a USB antiX stick, specifying a boot partition (antiX boot parameters) or some other way?

Good question. I’m booting from the original USB antiX stick. I don’t have Grub installed. So far, it’s no great inconvenience. Barring the loading of rootfs into RAM (e.g. “Loading 414 MB into RAM ……”), the boot is quite fast.

That is, I don’t technically “dual boot”, though it may turn out to be a good idea.

Also, specifying antiX boot parameters looks intriguing; I didn’t realize that was an option.

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Thanks for the followup; I did learn some things. Yours is also the first inxi I’ve seen here using emacs as the shell. (8-)

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mcpderez wrote:

Thanks for the followup; I did learn some things. Yours is also the first inxi I’ve seen here using emacs as the shell. (8-)

You’re welcome. To be honest, I eventually felt bad that I had left the thread hanging like that. Also, in general I know how using AntiX as a persistent system can
be tricky: the only way to get it is to actually do it.

I’ve gotten into the habit of using Eshell for inxi since copy-pasting from Eshell is easy. However, inxi’s colorful output in the terminal is due to a bunch of escape
characters ornamenting the actual text. So what I’ve been doing in Eshell is this (as an example, let’s use ‘inxi -b’):

inxi -b | sed ‘s/\x1B\[[0-9;]*[JKmsu]//g’ > /dev/clip

The sed command shown above simply removes the ANSI escape sequences from inxi’s output, and ‘/dev/clip’ is an Eshell “virtual device” referring to the system clipboard.

• This reply was modified 4 days, 23 hours ago by bci. Reason: Fix '/dev/clip/' to '/dev/clip'
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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

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Great discussion! I’ve not used Emacs in the way you describe for many years but at one time I did, though I didn’t use eshell exclusively.

I have from time to time attempted to stay in Emacs; it’s possible to do nearly everything in it though it’s not always optimal. On a practical level I use it for multiple things and more when I was an active code maintainer and tester.

These days I use it mainly for a change of pace, not really needing to use it, simply to keep the finger feel and practice.

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