problem with dsl-hdinstall (0.7.2)Forum: User Feedback Topic: problem with dsl-hdinstall (0.7.2) started by: woverin Posted by woverin on July 17 2004,05:51
I can't do dsl-hdinstall with 0.7.2 (md5 is ok) fdisk -l Unable to seek on /dev/hda I did install 0.7.1 without any problem. Posted by roberts on July 17 2004,06:21
If fdisk -l cannot see your drive, then it won't install. What does cfdisk display? Also, what does fdisk -l on the drive show when you boot from 0.7.1. fdisk didn't change, so I am curious what it wil display.
Posted by woverin on July 17 2004,08:06
cfdisk display my partition correctly(both 0.7.1 and 0.7.2)/dev/hda1 Primary ext2 2701.77MB /dev/hda5 Logical swap 627.06 MB /dev/hda6 Logical ext2 998.65 MB i tried to remove /dev/hda1 and repartition it with cfdisk then mke2fs /dev/hda1 I can format sucessfully. However fdisk -l still show the same error Posted by clivesay on July 17 2004,13:49
woverin -You and I ar experiencing the same thing with .7.2. I have sent my output to robert. Chris Posted by woverin on July 20 2004,10:36
Any progress on this problem ?I looked at fstab and mtab from both 0.71, 0.72 There is no difference. Still can't make 0.72 install on HDD Posted by woverin on July 20 2004,10:57
I think i found the problem.on DSL 0.7.1 it has fdisk from BusyBox v1.00-pre5 which is ok. DSL 0.7.2 use BusyBox v.100-pre10 doesn't read hdd partition properly New version of BusyBox might be the culprit. Here is my solution Restore gnu util first. < Gnu Util > Then you can install dsl 0.72 However, running dsl as LiveCD can not replace /usr/sbin/fdisk (read only) So i extract fdisk from dsl-sys.tar.gz to /home/damnsmall/ then cp /usr/sbin/dsl-hdinstall /home/damnsmall/myinstall beaver myinstall edit line 88 (insert ./ before fdisk) FDISK="$(./fdisk -l blah blah....) save and execute myinstall |