Laptops :: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT



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no swap yet to count on


Well this was my concern as well, what I'd like to do is boot up into the prompt and make a swap partition before installing - would dsl recognise and use one?
If you have a floppy drive on that box..
Get a copy of tomsrtbt linux.. It's only about 2 megs in size.

Follow the website instructions to write it to a FRESH floppy disk.
Trust me , pulling one outta the bottom of an old box o' floppys will give you grief.

Boot your system with the bootdisk, and use the cfdisk or fdisk utilities on it
to make a swap partition on your HD, and run mkswap /dev/hd?? (??=your swap )

Then try the DSL boot from CD..
DSL will recognize your swap, and give your system some needed room to operate.

And I'd still give the "dsl 2" command a try without the fb800x600 included..

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I'd still give the "dsl 2" command a try without the fb800x600 included


I did, and I got a suspiciously similar looking error that I couldn't see the bottom or right hand side of :laugh:

As for tomsrtbt, I've got a copy of BootE here, and I've partitioned accordingly and mkswap /dev/hda2'd from there - now is there some method of kicking things off from within that, as rebooting from the dsl floppy (no cdrom boot on this oldie) there was no chance - still the same Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address xxxxxxxx and Segmentation Fault. The former would seem (with my limited knowledge) to intimate cache/memory...

Is there a method of installing dsl directly from a linux boot floppy like tomsrtbt/BootE ???

*EDIT*
I've just noticed that I've mistyped the version number in the title, it is in fact 0.8.2 I'm trying to install...
Just a quick note to give you all a little more info on what I'm now working with:

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Disk /dev/hda: 1358 MB
Device     Boot  Start  End  Blocks     Id System
/dev/hda1   *       1    187 376960+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2            1    187 127008   83 Linux swap
/dev/hda3            1    187 822528   83 Linux


I'm booting both 0.7.2 and 0.8.2 (from floppy) and receiving both the original error I've outlined above, and with some options such as failsafe or noacpi  I can get as far as the person in this thread, however I've long since exhausted the few options I can find documented...

I'm just a little at sea over this one; This machine runs NetBSD (the installation of which nothing remains, so much for self-confidence :laugh: ) without a problem, and it's (arguably) more demanding.

Of course, it's a different kettle of fish entirely...
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Boot your system with the bootdisk, and use the cfdisk or fdisk utilities on it
to make a swap partition on your HD, and run mkswap /dev/hd?? (??=your swap )


This seems like the most sensible option to me, so as listed above I have two formatted ext2 partititions, plus swap. The problem is, how would I go about incorporating swapon /dev/hda2 into the non-existant /ect/fstab on the dsl boot disk? ??? I can boot into BootE without difficulty; is there any way to kick of the dsl boot-cd process from within here (where I can easily issue swapon)?
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