I am setting up my Libretto 110ct. I got a CF IDE 2.5" adapter and have a 4Gb Hitachi harddrive pluged in.
I first put the drive in a Compaq (that would boot from CD) and booted from the DSL CD image.
I used Install to partition the HD:
hda1 256Mb ext2 hda2 256Mb swap (I have 64Mb in the Libretto, that is max) hda3 3583Mb for all my data and stuff.
Did a frugal install to hda1 from the CD
Then moved the drive to my Libretto.
I booted up selecting DSL fb800x600. Of course the Libretto is 800 x 480, will get to that. Once into DSL, I fixed the system clock (bios does not provide that option and it was back to 1990). And formatted the swap partition:
sudo -s mkswap /dev/hda2
I tried to do a backup to /dev/hda3 and nothing seemed to happen.
Now on reboot, I see it switching to use hda2 as swap. but then something goes wrong:
ls: /home/dsl/.xtdesktop/*.lnk: No such file or directory Done. INIT: Entering runlevel: 5 su(pam_unix)[513]: session opened for user dsl by (uid=0) dsl@tty1[dsl]$
Please how to I get things going as I want?
I suspect part might be I have not formatted hda3? (and have not found the magic formula to do that).The magic command needed:
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda3
Then a reboot, and up and running!
It is sooooo nice to see my Libretto in use again after all these years....check :
hda1 256Mb ext2 hda2 256Mb swap (I have 64Mb in the Libretto, that is max) hda3 3583Mb for all my data and stuff.
Did a frugal install to hda1 from the CD
Why a 256 MB partition for a 50-55 MB ISO?
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Why a 256 MB partition for a 50-55 MB ISO?
I can't speak for dslrgm, but there are uses for this extra space. For example, I have multiple versions of DSL KNOPPIX files on my boot partition.Next Page...
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