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Thanatos

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Posted: Sep. 02 2004,02:06

OK, I use 7tools Partition Manager to convert hda5 into Linux Ext3 & hda6 into Linux Swap2. I tried ext2 first, it didn't work. I booted from the CD & did "sudo dsl-hdinstall". Then I told it "sudo /dev/hda5". Screen flickered, I saw activity on my hd, ended up on the exit screen. It said on the screen:
failed to load group file
BScreen: :BScreen: managing screen0 using visual 0x21, depth 24
/home/dsl/.xinitrc: line8: 362 Killed fluxbox

Used OSLoader to try & boot to linux it shows. Nothing happened. Black screen with cursor in upper left corner. Won't do a thing.
Tried again using "sudo /dev/hda5 enhanced". It came to a screen that said:
i8253 count too high! resetting

Partition Explorer shows hda5 as "Ext2FS" with 36.6MB in use. That seems about what dsl should use. Still won't boot.
What can I do now?? Thanks for any help.

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Thanatos

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Posted: Sep. 02 2004,11:14

PS I checked with Partition Explorer & there is a folder named: "lost+found" on hda5. It is empty, as far as I can tell. Thanks again.:cool:

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Thanatos
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Posted: Sep. 06 2004,21:18

Don't understand your procedure. What I did was to boot DSL on CD. Then I used cfdisk in XTerm as su to make two partitions. In my case this was hda1, bootable, 384 MB, Linux type 83 and hda2, 128 MB, Linux swap, type 82. Then I wrote the new partition table to disk and rebooted from the CD as suggested. Then I went to Apps > Tools > Install to Hard Drive and used the standard installation. And at the end I used mkliloboot to install lilo to the MBR. Everything works perfectly.

Good luck, cowboy

Thanatos

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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,02:06

I decided to redo my HD. I used Seagates software to set up the partitions. Now remember, my old HD is hda3 & 4. Before I reinstalled Win98SE, I used the DSL CD to convert the partitions I wanted, into linux drives. Tried install then, but no luck. After Win setup, I used Amigo linux to check the drives & reformat them to linux. I still can't get dsl to install. Cfdisk shows the following setup for my linux drives:

hda5 Logical Linux Reiserfs 238.54M
hda6 Logical Linux Swap 542.87M
hda7 Logical Linux ext2 230.31M
hda8 Logical Linux Swap 542.87M

When I try the hdinstall, it tells me there is no linux partition. What else can I do?? Thanks for the help. If I ever get the money?? I'll order a linux CD of some kind. Maybe that will help.

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Thanatos
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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,16:09

Quote (Thanatos @ Sep. 22 2004,22:06)

You only need 1 swap partition..any Linux distro will see and mount that swap...and its universal, every Linux distro will use it

Brian
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