Noob

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Noob
started by: dh_racer

Posted by dh_racer on Jan. 08 2005,17:51

I catch on quick, but I am hanging up here. I have an old POS box, that I installed Fedora Core 2 on, but being a Pentium II and 333Mhz ad limited memory, the thing is hogging a ton of resources.
So I have come to DSL. Now, my question is, how do I get rid of Core 2 and just run DSL.

Posted by dh_racer on Jan. 08 2005,18:02

I am figuring eiher from tools..install to hard drive or FRUGAL Install, the problem as I see it, correct me if I am wrong, the CORE 2 app is taking up a huge amount of space.

processor : 0
vendor_id : GEnuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Pentium II Deschutes
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 334.096
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr
bogomips : 666.82

Need more info?

Posted by green on Jan. 08 2005,18:48

I'm a noob as well, so this is probably not the 'correct' way to do it.

I have an old PII as well. So, I set up the partitions on my hardrive first, using the DSL Live CD cfdisk utility. While running the DSL Live CD, I right clicked on the desktop --> XShells --> Root Access. Then typed in cfdisk. (that works for if you only have one hard drive as it defaults to /dev/hda) I was able to see the current partitions (NTFS at the time), I deleted all partitions, then setup a Linux partition as hda1, then a swap partition (/dev/hda5, type 82 to equal the size of my RAM), then partitioned the rest of the disk with type Linux as hda6.

After partitioning, I rebooted, coming up on the DSL Live CD again. Richt clicked the desktop, --> Apps --> Tools --> Install to Hard Drive. It asks the question at some point where I wanted to install to. I told it hda1. It formatted it anad did it. At the end of the install I said 'yes' to mkliloboot. It ran like a champ.

Hope this answers your question. What I did blew away the Windoze stuff and the NTFS partitions.

Posted by dh_racer on Jan. 08 2005,19:09

Ok, yea I was looking into how to make the partitions, b/c with Fedora it did it for me. So I assume it will wipe Fedora off, all though I have my doubts. I think once I get it going it will work like a champ, I am impressed how much better it runs than the Knoppix Live CD I also have.
Thanks for your tips.

Posted by dh_racer on Jan. 08 2005,19:20

what did you set your partitions too?
I have three
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Posted by green on Jan. 08 2005,19:38

dh_racer,

Here is what I have done.

hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 15002.92
hda5 Logical Linux swap 254.99
hda6 Logical Linux 14756.16

I have one 30GB hard drive, and made the swap partition the same size as my RAM. I have 256MB RAM and typed it in as 256 but you can see that the partition size is just a little different, it did that on it's own.
By the way, DSL does NOT need that big of a partition. 15GB is huge for DSL and quite an overkill. I just did that cuz I was in a hurry and I know that I will be blowing it away and reinstalling at some point, not because of problems but due to hardware changes that I will be making. I have run DSL on a 500MB partition in the past.
I believe that you will be able to blow away your fedora core stuff by doing this. I've blown away other things doing it this way.

Good luck.

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 08 2005,21:09

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