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====What is a Frugal Install?====
~Frugal/standard is the preferred method for installing any version of Puppy Linux. The system files are stored in a small number of files in one directory, rather than spread out over a full partition. An alternate (and depreciated) installation is known as 'full'.
~As the paragraph above suggests, the adjectives 'frugal' and 'full' refer to how a Puppy operating system uses space on a storage partition. A full (depreciated) installation occupies all the space on a partition - hence the word "full". In contrast, a standard/frugal installation can co-exist with another operating system (including Windows or another version of Puppy Linux) on a single partition. Because a standard of installation uses only one directory for the system files it was declared to be 'frugal' - as it is! Later, some imagined the word 'frugal' suggested additional features might be found in a 'full' installation. Quite the opposite - every feature of the 'full' installation is available in a standard/frugal install - and a few extra. "Full" installs are used on systems with minimal resources (and particularly RAM).
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~In more technical terms a standard/frugal installation uses a layered file system. The base [[SFS]], other SFSs and PupSave files remain compressed in filesystem-in-a-container file. However, to a user, the files in the '**S**(quashed)-**F**(ile)-**S**(ystem)' appear as the Linux [[RootFS]] which normally expanded over a whole [[directory]]. Any changes or additional files are added to the PupSave file. Apart from files in the ##/mnt/## directory which is used to specify mount locations.
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~This method allows the whole OS to be loaded into memory. Additionally, you can have multiple installations on one partition; this may include the MS Windows OS, as mentioned above.
==Also on the Wiki==
~[[InstallationFrugal Installation Frugal]]
~[[InstallationFullHDD]]
~[[FrugalOrFullInstallation Full or Frugal installation]]
~[[whiteout files|whiteout file (.wh)]] - used by layered filesystem to remove read-only file
==Related Webpages==
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57711 Frugal Installer (thread)]] GUI installer for frugal install created by [[Shinobar]]
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==Categories==
CategoryInstallation
====What is a Frugal Install?====
~Frugal/standard is the preferred method for installing any version of Puppy Linux. The system files are stored in a small number of files in one directory, rather than spread out over a full partition. An alternate (and depreciated) installation is known as 'full'.
~As the paragraph above suggests, the adjectives 'frugal' and 'full' refer to how a Puppy operating system uses space on a storage partition. A full (depreciated) installation occupies all the space on a partition - hence the word "full". In contrast, a standard/frugal installation can co-exist with another operating system (including Windows or another version of Puppy Linux) on a single partition. Because a standard of installation uses only one directory for the system files it was declared to be 'frugal' - as it is! Later, some imagined the word 'frugal' suggested additional features might be found in a 'full' installation. Quite the opposite - every feature of the 'full' installation is available in a standard/frugal install - and a few extra. "Full" installs are used on systems with minimal resources (and particularly RAM).
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~In more technical terms a standard/frugal installation uses a layered file system. The base [[SFS]], other SFSs and PupSave files remain compressed in filesystem-in-a-container file. However, to a user, the files in the '**S**(quashed)-**F**(ile)-**S**(ystem)' appear as the Linux [[RootFS]] which normally expanded over a whole [[directory]]. Any changes or additional files are added to the PupSave file. Apart from files in the ##/mnt/## directory which is used to specify mount locations.
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~This method allows the whole OS to be loaded into memory. Additionally, you can have multiple installations on one partition; this may include the MS Windows OS, as mentioned above.
==Also on the Wiki==
~[[InstallationFrugal Installation Frugal]]
~[[InstallationFullHDD]]
~[[FrugalOrFullInstallation Full or Frugal installation]]
~[[whiteout files|whiteout file (.wh)]] - used by layered filesystem to remove read-only file
==Related Webpages==
~[[http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=57711 Frugal Installer (thread)]] GUI installer for frugal install created by [[Shinobar]]
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==Categories==
CategoryInstallation
