DSL Embedded :: Still Need Help but a little farther along now.
You can see the different on promt: $ is for user (DSL) and # is for root. You can use:- or| Code Sample |
| $ sudo cfdisk |
Both will run cfdisk as root. Good luck 
i try to run cfdisk since im running DSL off a CD-RW
i got to aterm - now it says fatal error. the cf disk is connected via usb and is totally clean.
backup here... i connected the CF disk with an IDE reader. each time i did a command like formatting or writing the partitions i'd reboot the DSL, then go to install and it would proceed only to toss me a GRUB 1.5 load error. 
Hi,
I don't exactly know your hardware specifications, but here one possible idea:
1. try to run cfdisk in 'dsl init 2' mode (type it at prompt);
2. partition your CF-Card in two partition (hda1 bootable and hda5 logical f.ex.); no swaps becaus it could damage your card;
3. once this done, restart DSL off of the CD;
3. then install DSL on the first partition of your CF from your CD-RW; an advice: choose the frugal install, there are a lot of good experiences with it and CF cards.
Hope it will help a bit.
yours
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There's no real need to write two partitons, unless you will want to make persistant /home and /opt on the second partition to save when you update DSL later on. The partition(s) need to be Linux ext2 partitions for DSL to work. Frugal grub install works great for me. Make sure you pick the i for install and not the u for update. That way a new grub configuration file will be written and you will not get the grub error.
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