HD Install :: Frugal install, cfdisk and partitioning

The extensions are not on the cd by default.

You probably want "fb800x600 lowram nodhcp pci=assign-busses"

After lots of messing around with wireless cards and partitioning I'm ready to do a frugal install. I removed my hard drive and connected it to my desktop running Mint and shrunk the windows partition, then made three new partitions for boot, swap and /home (with gparted). I then put the drive back in the laptop and booted with the dsl 2 option. I then ran /usr/sbin/frugal_grub.sh, picked hda3 for the image, told it to install from the live cd and to format the partition. I then got the following error:

Formatting during install: EXT2-fs error (device ide0 (3,3)): read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group=7 block_bitmap=57583
cp: writing '/mnt/hda3/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX': Input/output error
grub installation completed.

I have no idea what this means or how to proceed.
Should I delete and recreate the partitions but not format them?

Thanks.

could it be that hda3 you created was too small after formatting? Ya know formatting takes couple of mb's for metadata..

I made the partition 57 M, like you said to do. I was getting an error when I formatted the partition under Mint. I deleted the partition and tried it again but still got the error. Maybe I should create the partitions with gparted then format them under DSL.

yeah, you could try that..

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