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That will only copy the image over, useful for upgrades and the like.
Try one of the various "install" options via a wm menu, cheatcode (ie "dsl install"), or script (ie frugal_grub.sh)

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The boot process stops midway, with the message:  "Verifying DMI pool data..."
That's part of the bios POST afaik.

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The weird thing is that I cannot access the hard drive at all when booting from a CD; it's as if it doesn't exist. I know the hard drive works, because windows works with it.
You need to mount it first (assuming it is formatted etc.)

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Second, plugins like Flash are impossible to download and run.
If you do that and the system breaks, you need more memory.

For more information, see one of the various install guides.
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That will only copy the image over, useful for upgrades and the like.
Try one of the various "install" options via a wm menu, cheatcode (ie "dsl install"), or script (ie frugal_grub.sh)

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The boot process stops midway, with the message:  "Verifying DMI pool data..."
That's part of the bios POST afaik.

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The weird thing is that I cannot access the hard drive at all when booting from a CD; it's as if it doesn't exist. I know the hard drive works, because windows works with it.
You need to mount it first (assuming it is formatted etc.)

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Second, plugins like Flash are impossible to download and run.
If you do that and the system breaks, you need more memory.

For more information, see one of the various install guides.

Thanks!

Can you give me  more instructions on these install options? What is a wm menu? How do I get and run the script you mention?

Also, once I have DSL running from a CD, do I always have to mount the hard drive manually?  How do I do this?  Is there a way to mount it automatically?  

Do you have a URL for the install guide(s)?

Coming from windows and mac I'm not used to all the interactions with hardware...

thanks again.
Hey

Wm menu = window manager menu, the thing that opens when you click on your desktop :)

The wiki has loads of info on the different install options, so we prefer not to repeat them.
Here's an install guide:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....wto.pdf
thanks, sorry for my lack of knowledge :)

OK, I've tried two boot methods, and though I made progress, neither method worked:

(1) the pdf you recommended asked me to partition the harddrive, then run /usr/sbin/frugal_instal.sh  I did the partitioning using cfdisk.

But frugal_instal.sh doesn't seem to exist, at least not in the path set up by DSL.  Am I supposed to locate it on the net somewhere and download it? The problem will be how to make it accessible to DSL, which is running only from memory and CD.  I would have thought it would be included on the DSL CD, but it's not there, or at least I can't find it.

(2) I found a link on the DSL site containing install instructions:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-hd-install.html

which explains how to install in a jiffy.

Here I was told to run a script dsl-hdinstall.  This worked, to a point.
At its conclusion the script instructed me to reboot with the CD out of the drive, and this resulted in the letter L followed by a long string of 99s (e.g. "99 99 99 99 ...") on the screen; nothing further happened after that.

I rebooted DSL from the CD and tried to finish the instructions.  I was supposed to run a script called mkliloboot.  However this script doesn't exist either, at least not in the path set by DSL.

Please help!
thank you
The info in 2) is very outdated, I can't figure out why it's still online..

Since you have finished partitioning, you only need to run dsl-hdinstall, and say yes to "do you want to install a bootloader", no need to mess with mkliloboot yourself. If you did say yes, and chose lilo (for your L hang), try grub. Sometimes one works better than the other.
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