len
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Posted: Jan. 30 2004,05:39 |
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use the win98 start up boot disk to clean up/ restore the mbr by doing fdisk /mbr- this will remove lilo, and allow a clean install. from my experience so far, windows fdisk will not get rid of linux partitions correctly.
boot up dsl in cd rom drive, open terminal, become root by typing in sudo su<enter> and then type in cfdisk<enter> and create your partitions. use an editor to open hd-install, and create partitions as advised. in cfdisk, the default partition "type" is 83, which is linux ext2, ext3, reiserfs, and you'll need to create a swap partition, which will need to be a type 82 partition. when you select type in cfdisk, it'll show a vast type of partition available. hit enter a couple of times, and it'll load type 82 for you. then you'll need to format the partitions, and then load the os. remove the "./" shown in the install guide, and then the commands will work. so instead of ./dsl-hdinstall, use dsl-hdinstall, and use mkliloboot as well. this should work.
btw, the last time i tried a hdd install was 0.4.5, and it was not stable. i ran a DC prog for a couple of weeks, and ended up being screwed up upon doing a reboot. if the vastly improved startup, and shut down behavior of the most recent versions is carried over to the hdd install, then there might be greater stability.
hope this helps out!
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...I mean who would not love to carry there operating system around in there bag ;) anyways sorry for the lengthy post 
