HD Install :: DLS install with loadlin

I tried several times to install the bootloader during the "Install to HD", but the terminal ended and stopped the process. So I repeated the process and did not try to install a bootloader. First "mkswap /devsda5" "mke2fs -j /dev/sda6" tried "swapon /dev/sda5" - device already in use so okay. I closed the term and browsed to "Install to HD" Everything copied okay, setting up "/root/, setting up "/home/dsl/" both okay. Error on -

"tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
mount: relocation error: mount: undefined symbol: blkid_known_fstype
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/auto/floppy/linux24': No such file or directoy"

Then the lines:

The installation process is finished.
Proceed to install a bootloader (y/...):

I answered "n" and exited.

I mounted "sda6" and it appears there are 18 directories there.
Questions:

Is there a problem with the error? Is it the result of sda1 being a win/dos disk? Can I now try to boot the linux "sda6" with loadlin? After setup can a boot loader like grub be installed?

I think I am close, but a little unsure as to how to proceed. Thank you for all your help so far.

I'm really not sure what happened for you. All that is really weird.

How about just installing a bootloader to boot that self-copied frugal on your fat32?
And then having the ext3 drive for other data?

I think it did copy all the files to sda6. Maybe I could manually copy the image, initrd and files to sda6 from the CD. Is that possible and which files do I need copy. The "fdisk -l" sees all the partitions, but it lists the win95 disk as FAT16 is that a problem? I really ideally would not mind going to a linux only setup. But I am affraid to eliminate the win95 which is my backdoor at this time. I have a 1GB spare drive. Is it possible to prepare that drive for linux transfer all files, remove other drives and have it boot?

Clarification to what I was thinking. I created a boot floppy on another machine running DSL from a CD. Could this floppy be used to boot a preconfigured disk as described above. If it has the KNOPPIX directory and image would it be able to load using the floppy?

Yeah, you could just use that one drive.

Something like:

Boot that loadlin DSL. Partition the new drive with a 70mb linux partition, a swap one, and the rest space in one partition. Format 'em all. Then move all files from the cd to the 70mb partition.

Now make a menu.lst for grub. I think there is an example on in DSL, but don't remember where..
You could search it up with "find / -name menu.lst". The only things you'll need to change are
"root (hdX,X)" and "root=/dev/hda2" parts. Since it's the first HD when you boot it, it will be sda1 and (hd0,0). Put that into /boot/grub of the 70mb partition.

Also copy stage1_5-e2fs, stage1 and stage2 from /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ to /boot/grub of the partition.

Now you'll only have to install grub:
make the old device.map in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc (not sure if that's where it was) say
(hd0) /dev/sdXX
where the XX is what the new drive is currently, ie sdb or sdc..

Hope this helps

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