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Posted: Aug. 03 2004,02:42 QUOTE
Hi,

first off i don't have (immediate) access to a cd-burner, thats why i decided to install DSL by hand.

I added a spare 4GB drive to ide1 slave, so my ide config looks like:
primary master, 40GB Maxtor
primary slave, ATAPI CD-ROM
sec. master, ATAPI ZIP drive 250 MB (additional problem, see further down)
sec. slave, 4GB Seagate

With toms linux distro on floppy (a 2.2.20 kernel and busybox)
I fdisked the drive with 3 primary partitions and formatted hdd2 and hdd3 with ext2.
on hdd3 is the 2.7.3 iso of DSL.
Additionaly hdd1 is fdisked bootable and I dd'ed the boot.img on it (for faster booting, cause i needed it so often).

Then I followed exactly the frugal script code except with the wget and bootdisk part deleted. $SOURCE was hdd3 and $TARGET was hdd2. It executed with no problem, and I manually verified that I have a clean hdd2/KNOPPIX directory with the expanded ISO image.

And now comes the pain in the ass, no matter what boot options (i.e. dsl fromhd=/dev/hdd2) I try, always give the same result:

ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ldm_validate_partition_table(): Diskread failed
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue(0)
[this takes forever, and I'm willing to drop support for my zip after succesfull installing DSL]

pderaid: Error reading suberblock
pderaid: Error reading suberblock
hptraid: Error reading suberblock
hptraid: Error reading suberblock
hptraid: Error reading suberblock
hptraid: Error reading suberblock
silraid: Error reading suberblock
[what`s dat?!]

And then DSL seems to search for knoppix filesystem but reports me it`s sorry (thank you for being at least sorry :) to not find any knoppix filesystem and drops me to a minimal shell.

Please guys help me, I've already spent hours and it really starts pissing me off.

Alex
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Posted: Aug. 03 2004,02:59 QUOTE
Looks like this approach is a combination of three.
Since you are familiar with tomsrtbt disk, I would suggest you try the following approach:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....1;t=130
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Posted: Aug. 03 2004,10:37 QUOTE
Quote (alexh @ Aug. 02 2004,22:42)
Then I followed exactly the frugal script code except with the wget and bootdisk part deleted. $SOURCE was hdd3 and $TARGET was hdd2. It executed with no problem, and I manually verified that I have a clean hdd2/KNOPPIX directory with the expanded ISO image.

the stupid thing is, I did it this way, except I cancelled the wget part in the script, cause I already had dsl-2.7.3.iso in %SOURCE.
The script whatsoever didnt give errrors...

Alex
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Posted: Aug. 05 2004,21:35 QUOTE
Well, I gave up on it. Perhaps it will work with 0.8...
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Posted: Aug. 05 2004,22:35 QUOTE
yoy mention using dsl fromhd from this i asume you have a recent working cd if you have you can use that to load a frugal install (it's in tools) from file point it at mnt/hda-wherever your iso is at to your free partition you can then boot that with dslfromdhs-your instal point if you   then want to you can do a regular hd install. I hope this helps........I neither have a cd burner  and i update everytime useing this method i keep the frugal instal as a backup as if something happens to my hd install ie bad download i simply boot the frugal and then reinstal
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