User Feedback :: Noob Install on Solo 5150

Just spent a week of evenings trying to get DSL up on this Solo. You are looking at it but I couldn't boot from any CD image that I made so I found somewhere in these forums a ref to copping the Knoppix to C/Knoppix/Knoppix. When i did this I can now boot from a Floppy. Being a novis at this level of programing and not up on DOS I can use some help and advise. I want to have DSL on this machine but I still need it to run W98 for some things. Waht is the best way to configure these two systems and can I doo this without un installing windows? . This system seems to work great and fast but I would like to boot from the HD.

Side note and possably another day I also have a Solo 3100 that has no Floppy and will not boot from the CD that I burnt.

Any advise is welcome i have found a wealth of info on these forums so keep up the good work.

Yours James the Younger

Create your linux partitions and swap, format them and install from the right-click screen. You could search on these topics for more information. If you don't have any free space on the drive, you'll have to re-size it with something lile partition magic or add a drive or start over with a fresh drive.

Thanks Larkl i will try that from DSL

Still working on this problem. It seems that I cannot use the Partition magic, ( missing some "stub") in windows to make a seperate partition. CFDISK will not run from my setup,( the Solo dosen't have swapable drives so I need the floppy to boot DSL and I don't seem able to download and convert a usable CD image .img CD that will boot on this computer

Any more Ideas?

???

James the Younger

Can you download the dsl.iso file to windows and use daemon tools to extract?!

Give that a whirl!

Brian
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