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Topic: Slave drive install, FDD boot onto h/w forced slave drive

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codestorm

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Posted: Oct. 27 2004,01:54

The challenge - I've got a hardware forced (no jumpers) slave only drive at home I'd like to boot DSL off.

I'd thought to install DSL onto it as per normal and then as a test use the DSL CDR to boot from the HDD, however so far it's whinging about no bootable image on the partition.

Idea/is it possible? If I can get it working with a redirected boot off the CDR I planned to make a boot floppy to fire up the HDD install.

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AwPhuch

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Posted: Oct. 27 2004,17:55

Do you have a floppy and or cdrom drive?
Is that machine network capable

I believe if you use a bootfloppy and have the /KNOPPIX and /BOOT dir from the cd copied over the the hdb drive (formatted fat32 64Meg[used later as a swap partition]) it will autodetect it, then you can create a 2nd partition on the drive and install to that...then lilo will take over (hopefully you wont get the 99 99 99 boot code)

Brian
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codestorm

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Posted: Nov. 01 2004,12:52

> Do you have a floppy and or cdrom drive?<br>

Both.

> Is that machine network capable<br><br>

Yep. On boot gets IP, etc from Smoothwall via DHCP.

> I believe if you use a bootfloppy and have the
> /KNOPPIX and /BOOT dir from the cd copied over the
> the hdb drive (formatted fat32 64Meg[used later as a
> swap partition]) it will autodetect it, then you can create
> a 2nd partition on the drive and install to that...then lilo
> will take over (hopefully you wont get the 99 99 99 boot
> code)<br>

Using CD boot can easily partition /dev/hdd (hdd1 Linux
swap and hdd2 Linux (ext2 from memory)).

Next I run the Apps > Tools > Install to Hard Drive, and
select the Standard install into hdd2.

So far so good ...

restart and ... (in next post after trying it).

Will try booting from CDR (dsl from=hdd2 or whatever F2
reminds me it is) and note the issues.

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codestorm

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Posted: Nov. 01 2004,12:59

Well, dang, just to prove me wrong it worked this time, and even booted directly from the HDD. Hmpf, now I'll have to redo with 0.8.2

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