HD Install :: Installing onto a new HDD
Update:
I did not take the Debian suggestion, since I am not familiar with Debian and I did not understand what you meant. Thank you for the suggestion.
Also, I did not “swap” the partitions, since the instructions told me to set them up this way.
So what did I do?
I copied the file minirt24.gz from a mirror site: http://feather.gus.to/mirror/
What this file does I do not know. I put it in, but I can run DSL without it as well.
Instead of executing all of the GRUB commands listed in my earlier message, I put them in the menu.lst file and copied it to the /boot directory. Then at the GRUB prompt I execute:
GRUB> bootloader /boot/menu.lst
Now the menu comes up, and I just select the default entry, where all the commands are kept. It then boots just fine.
I am sure you have a more elegant solution, but this works for me so far. I can remember the simple one liner. I haven’t figured out how to get the menu.lst to display automatically. If you know how to do this, then you can let me know.
Correction:
The above message, the actual GRUB lines should read:
GRUB> root (hd0,1)
GRUB> configfile /boot/menu.lst # Not bootloader ...
Then the GRUB menu comes up fine.
Sorry for any confusion!
Update:
I gave up on DSL-3.3-syslinux.iso. Instead, I took the file DSL-3.4.iso, and burned this. Then I installed this version. It worked perfectly. Now I boot into a GUI version of GRUB, which is much easier to use.
Summary: don’t use DSL-3.3-syslinux.iso for a i686 machine with a Pentium III. Go right to DSL-3.4.iso!
Thank you for all the previous suggestions.
Kevin
original here.