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Posted: Jan. 03 2007,15:24 QUOTE
A simple newbie question....  I have Microsoft Virtual Machine installed on my Windows XP system & now want to install DSL on a virtual machine.    My linux skills are EXTREMELY limited (that's why I want to get an DSL environment set up - in order to practice and learn!).
I downloaded the iso file for VM installations, and have mounted the virtual CD on my virtual machine... which boots OK.  The virtual machine  has a 17GB virtual hard disk allocated.  I've been able to sudo cfdisk, to create a 50GB hda1 partition, which is set to be bootable.  however, when I try to run the tool to do an..
apps/tools/frugal install

The sytem fails to install to hda1 - because it says it cannot create a directory (even though it claims to have just formatted the disk).

I've taken care to reboot the machine after doing the cfdisk and before doing the frugal install.

I've mounted hda1 & it looks like the disk is full - 100% utilisation and 0% free space..... so something is going wrong somewhere!

As I say, I am a total newbie to installing linux, so need the instructions spelled out to the letter!

Also, what is the difference /significance of Grub vs Lilo ?

Also (again) what is the best disk format to be using?  there appear to be a number of Linux options available. I think I have gone with type 83 which i thin was just Linux.

I did try scanning this forum for help, but the person who had a similar problem managed to solve it themselves and didn't post the solution (doh!).

Thankx in anticipation
Dave R.
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Posted: Jan. 03 2007,16:16 QUOTE
Did you reboot your vm after you partitioned your disk like what cfdisk suggested to do?
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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,00:48 QUOTE
Yes I did reboot after creating the partition.

Something is not quite right with it though, because it shows as being 100% full even though it is a new partition that I have not put any data into.
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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,03:39 QUOTE
I'm surprised you could mount the partition after cfdisk+reboot - I would've thought you'd need to format it before you could.

Hm, I really only use qemu and vmware, so I can't help you much here.
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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,12:31 QUOTE
Sorted - I mounted hda1 and formatted it with an mkfs command...

mkfs hda1

This seemed to do whatever was necessary to the file system... the next time I tried doing a disk install, the install procedure was able to format the disk itself...... bit strange but there you go!
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