ok i decided that telling u the system im doing the actual instalation on might help, im installing on a at&t globalyst "yes its a nec versa with a new name" im using the docking station for the cdrom, and it boots of cd and floppy fine, but my goal is to install dsl onto the hard drive so i can putthe hard drive back into the compaq contura aero 4/33c. if i can just get it installed and on the other system i can go from there. i figure it will be a great learning exeprience, im new to this problem, im not that great with boot loaders but i have messed with freebsd, netbsd, redhat 5.2 through 9.0 and fedora, corel linux "sucked", storm linux 2000 "actually one of my favorites not sure y", cluster knoppix, and a bunch more, just never tryed installing on a system with no external media format which started this hole thing. i found dsl and was so hapy it would fit on the system but now im in a rut again. well theres some info that might help thanks for your time.I got loadlin to work using:
Code Sample
loadlin vmlinuz vga=791 initrd=miniroot.gz
where vmlinuz and miniroot.gz were copied from the DSL boot floppy over to the hard disk directory where my loadlin.exe and my batch file were stored.
16 or 24 Meg RAM should be enough to run DS, although creating a swap file or swap partition later on after you have the system up and running is advisable.
Good Luck.just a question. how can you stuff the whole distro (takes about 200mb I've heard) AND create a swap partition AND have a dos partition if you only have a 124 mb HD? Answer:
Poor Man's or Frugal install.
Install DSL compressed image file directly to DOS, VFAT or Linux EXT2 partition. Size: 50MB.
Then use the rest of the disk space for swap and/or restore tarballs.well thanks guys it worked, it boots now, but i wasnt thinking, this laptop has no math co-proccesor, so im stuck again, it boots up and says "giving up". any tips? lol
