Laptops :: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT

Cheers folks, but the fun doesn't stop here

I'll try and throw dsl-hdinstall on hda1 after work tomorrow, see how that goes. Gave it a shot tonight, and returned to the same segmentation error, so I wiped the drive to start again. I'm assuming it's another memory issue, in which case is the hd-install not carrying across my switches from the original boot?

hda3 is ready to go too - I might just boot from floppy and whack in tohd: This was how I initially setup, but for some reason I decided to wipe it and start again. I could have done the hdinstall from there, but that didn't occur to me until too late

On general performance, given the puny amount of ram this thing has, I'm quite impressed. It's struggling a little running from the cd (it's only 6x), but on the hd it was surprisingly responsive. Afterwards, time to get it some form of connection and to get this thing mobile again

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Welcome to the revolution

Hasta la victoria siempre!

More again:

I've redone all the partitions on the drive, into a hda1=swap, hda2=ext and hda3=ext2. When booting from the floppy and executing userdef dsl tohd=/dev/hda2 I receive the following error:

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Accessing DSL image at /dev/scd0... df: /cdrom2: can't find mount point Copying DSL image failed. Not enough free space on /dev/hda2. Found: 0k Need: 52871k

Yet, so long as I don't specify dsl tohd=/dev/hda2, it will boot fine (but obviously, only from the CD). fdisk -l shows hda1 as 82, hda2 as 83 and hda3 as 83, and after mkfs.ext2 on /dev/hda2 and hda3, all fsck'd fine.

Overcame the memory error ('dsl' was overriding my 'userdef' boot in syslinux.cfg on the bootfloppy) by adding mem=16M to the 'dsl' kernel switches and vga=788 to force 800x600, so I'm back in X.

I can't understand though: why would firstly lilo refuse to accept mem=16M after the hdinstall, and secondly, why would the dsl boot disk think all my partitions have 0k free space even straight after I've fdisk'd and mkfs'd them? Am I forgetting something simple?

Yes; I can run dsl-hdinstall without difficulty, and I've verified that the files are be copied across: It's definitely working. It only fails to write when I boot from the floppy and at the boot prompt: dsl tohd=/dev/hda2

Anyway, I rebooted from the cd and edited lilo.conf to include mem=16M - no change. I'm stumped... It's late here anyway, work in the morning. Hopefully I'll get a chance tomorrow...

Haven't had a chance to look at it yet, been too busily involved in the heady world of wage-slavery

Is there somewhere I enter the kernel switches other than in the lilo.conf when booting an hd install? I'm at a bit of a loss (again! )

Last shift tomorrow, with any luck I can have a few hours to dig around on Saturday - we all know that Friday nights are always a write of, productively speaking Now, I'm not desperate to get it on the drive for any reason other than the fact that the floppy drive in this unit is external - meaning it's another peice of hardware I'd have to carry round.

Not ideal, I'm sure you'd agree. I can copy the files across from the cd to the disk partition, and the thing will boot fine (from the  floppy) - Is there perhaps some way around this?