HD Install :: DLS install with loadlin

DSL can share swap with any other distro, but not the partition it is on.

Extended or primary partition doesn't matter. To create a swap partition, when in cfdisk or fdisk select the type 82 (linux/solaris swap) instead of 83 (linux) (might be the other way around, been a while since I partitioned), then format it to swap with "mkswap /dev/xxxx"

Actually... it can. I'm pretty sure it might be possible with a traditional way, but frugal's the way to go.

But that would mean awful lot of tweaking.. With frugal it's easy though

I have linux swaps on two disks. DSL does find them and uses them. The /dev/sda1 is the win95 partition where my loadlin and linux images are at the moment. When I do a dmesg | more I can see that linux recognizes sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6> and sdb: sdb1 < sdb5 sdb6>. It appears to use the sda5 and sdb5 as swap. I don't know how it came up with the < partitions > names. I used partition magic to create a linux swap and a ext2 linux file behind the sda1. On another disk I have a linux swap followed by another ext2 partition. When I try to tell it to install to a hard disk /dev/sda2, the partition is not recognized. Do I have use chroot and how would I do that? Using frugal would mean I need to have it recognize by ethernet card? That may be another interesting issue.

I found that < partitions > were the available partitions for install. I started the HD-install on sda6 since sda5 was the linux swap. However every thing appeared to go okay, until it said I had to reboot. I had also selected lilo prior to this. At this time the program either slowed down or stopped. I restarted loadlin:

loadlin.exe @c:\isolinux\options.txt

When it was all loaded I looked at the dmesg to look at the disks, I noticed that the line:

sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > was changed to sda: sda1 sda2 < >

What happened to the sda6 partition and how do I get it and lilo back. The root and all was copied to sda6, but how do I make it root and change from the ram to the ext2 partition < sda6 > if it still exists. The sda2 is apparently the extended partiton where the swap sda5 and the linux sda6 reside. Thank you for all your help so far.
As a side note DSL is recognizing only 16MB out of 64MB. Is this due to the 16MB limit on the DOS disk where it is booting from?

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