DSL Tips and Tricks :: HOW: CF Card installation (IDE adaptor)?

I am now one step forward.

We have to use (for example):

sudo cfdisk /dev/hda1

Then I get in a ascii communication.

But when I have done all and the PC is starting from CF card
I get now the message:

Kernal panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernal

What does this mean?

Is the problem the boot option?
Possible: toram ssh nfs syslog lpd monkey ftp

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What is this???

I startet the installation again and used "toram" whatever it is!?!
It is running NOW !

Don't mount hda1

Instead, open a terminal window and type:

sudo su
cfdisk /dev/hda

And then create a Linux partition type for partition number 1 and save and exit cfdisk. Then type:

mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda1

and then do your frugal install.

If you have a "real" hard drive and not a flash memory device, I also suggest that you use cfdisk to create a Linux swap partition type for partition number 2. Then format it with:

mkswap /dev/hda2

and activate it with:

swapon

or just reboot and it will be automatically activated.

Thank you cbagger01 !

I have done it again (like you wrote) - it is running very good with 64 MB CF card!

Can someone help me regarding this:

After successful Frugal Instalation I don't want to put in at every start:
- Xvesa: xserver
- USB mouse: NO
- IMPS/2 mouse: YES
- screen resolution: 1024 x 768 pixel
- color depth: 32 bit
- own dpi ?: no
- Keyboard: de

It would be great to safe it on the cf card as default setting.

Is this possible?

What can I do to use default settings or something else?

Thanks.

use "Backup/Restore".

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die standard einstellungen werden so gespeichert. du kannst über die datei filetool.lst kontrolieren, welche dateien gespeichert werden sollen.

ps: was hast du für deine neue maschine bezahlt? ich überlege auch, mir so ein nettes ding zuzulegen, habe aber wenig ahnung von den verschiedenen varianten und vor allem den preisen.

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