HD Install :: DLS install with loadlin

Hi,

I just loaded DSL using loadlin on an old 486 EISA machine with SCSI disks. Since this is my first post, any advice on how to best migrate the DSL to a true linux disk and not the win95 which it is currently on. I could not boot by floppy and CDROM so I had to use the loadlin procedure outlined in the wiki pages. Its also a bit slow at this time. I do have 64MB ram and even though the desktop loaded it is a bit sluggish. Do i need to create a swap file or disk for this?

Yes, a swap file/partition could be useful.

By "true linux disk", do you mean a linux partition?
When you tried booting from the floppy, was KNOPPIX on the cd or hd?

At the time I booted DSL I copied the files to C: on win95 fat32 file system. My goal is to have linux installed with a ext2 or ext3 file system on the disk. It's an old system and the CD boot even with a floppy did not work. It may be that someone else would know how to make it work, but I do not have the experience. So I tried the method using loadlin on a win95. Personally I do not care if the windows stays or goes in the end, right now it is just a tool to get linux in the box. The disk where the win95 is located is a 4GB disk which is devided in to two. I could reduce the win95 partition even more if I need to maybe to 1GB size. The second half of the disk is a ext3. Inaddition I have two other disks a 4GB and a 1GB with ext3 partitions already set. I would like to put a dual boot where I could boot DSL and Slackware 10.2 from the disk.

Where and how would I create the swap?
Can DSL share with Slackware?
Is ext3 a choice with DSL? Do you create an extended partition first and then create the Linux swap and the ext3 partition both inside the extended disk area?

I am also having a problem having the linux see the other disks. My experience with LInux has been on newer systems which pretty much booted from the CD and I am a little unsure when I need to tell the loading system about disks and how. The system has EISA SCSI controllers.

Knoppix is on the fat32 at this time.

I forgot to ask about ram memory. It seemed as if when DSL loaded it did not recognize all the system memory. I have 64MB ram. Is it possible to tell DSL that I 64MB. A mem=64MB perhaps. How would I use it in loadlin if it exists?

1. that's up to you..
2. yes, but unclear what you mean by 'share'. Do you want them on the same partition?
3. yes, but afaik it will be mounted as ext2
4. did you check if any scsi modules were loaded?
5. what and where did you see those numbers?

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