DSL Tips and Tricks :: how to install DSL to HD thru LPT CDRM drv

Either pull the hard drive and do the install on a different computer, or boot from floppy and do a net install (frgual lite and Tom's Root Boot disk) or a floppy only install.

Or you can reinstall MSDOS/FreeDOS/Win95/Win98 and install the parallel port driver and do it that way.

hi Cbagger01.. thanks for the advice. I chose the path to install MSDOS just so I can enable the parallel-port external cdrom drive where I can copy the \KNOPPIX into the harddrive ..

note: (Pentium 75mhz + fd drive + 24MB ram + 1GB hd + external parallel port cdrom drive)

Copied the D:\KNOPPIX directory to C:\KNOPPIX.

Inserted the bootfloppy and actually got far .. as far as ..

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Autoconfiguring devices .. done
Mouse ..
Scanning for Harddisk Partitions and createing /etc/fstab .. done.
Network device ..
..
Checking for myDSL apps.. done
INIT: Entering runlevel:5
su(pam_unix)[736]: session opened for user dsl by (uid=0)
Using Xvesa default 1024x768x32 -mouse "/dev/psaux" mouse
xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority

givng up.
xinit: Broken pipe (errno 32): unable to connect to X server.
xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 13
dsl@tty1[dsl$]_

but then what do i do now ? whats the next step ? Thanks in advance

What boot switches did you use?
Try booting with:

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dsl mem=24M minimal desktop=jwm xsetup

and see what happens?
Hope that it helps.
Cheers and beers,
Sarah

Also, if you get dropped into a shell like that again, type:

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xsetup.sh

which will take you through a setup script for X.

Cheers and beers again!
Sarah

Good morning Sarah

Thanks for the kind reply

I use the switch DSL 2 LOWRAM MINIMAL when that happened.

Now when I try the switch that you gave me... i get the same result.

Also late last nite I reformatted my HD via CFDISK to allocate 250MB for Linux swap and then installed msdos6.22 on the remaining 850MB...

typing the command sudo su and then fdisk -L..

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Disk /dev/hda: 1083 MB, 1083801600 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 525 cyl
units=cylinders of 4032*512 = 2064384 bytes

device boot start end blocks id system
/dev/hda1 * 405 525 243936 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 1 404 814432 6 FAT16

so anywayz.. back to the boot up error............

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fat: bogus logical sector size 17408
vfs : cant find a valind fat filesystem on dev 03:01

su(pam_unix)[736]: session opened for user dsl by (uid=0)
Using Xvesa default 1024x768x32 -mouse "/dev/psaux" mouse
xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority

givng up.
xinit: Broken pipe (errno 32): unable to connect to X server.
xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 13
dsl@tty1[dsl$]_
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running xsetup.sh to implement 640x480x8-bit yields the same error

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