HD Install :: can't install DSL!! :'(



cfdisk is included in DSL.

Did you use "dsl lowram"? Did you try others? You can combine them, such as "dsl 2 lowram mem=16M".  There's plenty others that may help you (like I suggested before, check out the wiki page)

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cfdisk is included in DSL.

Did you use "dsl lowram"? Did you try others? You can combine them, such as "dsl 2 lowram mem=16M".  There's plenty others that may help you (like I suggested before, check out the wiki page)

Ah, cool.. I didn't know you could combine'em like that. But how do I use cfdisk in DSL??
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But how do I use cfdisk in DSL??

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it seems hda and hdb are incorrectly set?  Try partitioning using `cfdisk -z /dev/hda` or if you're using hdb, `cfdisk -z /dev/hdb`

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But how do I use cfdisk in DSL??

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it seems hda and hdb are incorrectly set?  Try partitioning using `cfdisk -z /dev/hda` or if you're using hdb, `cfdisk -z /dev/hdb`

What's the difference between hda and hdb? Like.. I only got one hard drive hooked up.. so.. I dunno, I don't get it.

EDIT: Nevermind that question.. I figured it out. I got cfdisk to work and I created the partitions correctly now. Though, when I tried using dsl-hdinstall, it said it needed 200MB of free space on the partition.. not 50 or 60.. so it started saying somethin' like "can not created directory, not enough space". So I added space to the small partition, got it set as bootable, and I'm gonna try dsl-hdinstall from runlevel 2 and see if that'll work now.

*sigh*...

Like I said, I got cfdisk working.. and I tried the 200MB partition dsl-hdinstall.. it seemed like it worked right, but when I rebooted, it said "Missing operating system".. so I went back in cfdisk and there's no partitions there.

How do I exit cfdisk where it saves the partitions?? I did make sure to Write my three partitions to disk, but they still disappear for some reason.. after writing them to disk, I've tried exiting cfdisk through the command in the program, and I've also tried ctrl-alt-del.. the partitions disappear when I checked back both times.

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