Still Need Help but a little farther along now.

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: Still Need Help but a little farther along now.
started by: IAN442

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Posted by IAN442 on May 17 2006,02:20

wondering how or which tool to use to burn the iso right to the flash card.

thanks.

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Posted by Waxy on May 17 2006,14:50

Which tool(s) do you have for burning?

According to this post:
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=13437 >
if i understand correctly then you just have to write over the ISO
file to the blank card.

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Posted by IAN442 on May 18 2006,00:21

i have NERO to burn but can i burn right to the CF card with that i could not figure that out before becuase the CD ROM isn't burnable on this particular machine

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Posted by hs7sv on May 18 2006,01:52

IAN442, You can not burn image file to CF card directly. You need to burn iso image file to CD-R or CD-RW first.
After that, boot from DSL CD, use cfdisk in aterm as root for CF disk partitioning, then Format partition(s).
Reboot from DSL CD and run Frugal Install.

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Posted by IAN442 on May 18 2006,01:56

Now that i understand. - question when i open aterm does it log me in as root ?

sorry im very new at this and im trying to revive compaq ia-1's

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Posted by hs7sv on May 18 2006,02:02

You can see the different on promt: $ is for user (DSL) and # is for root. You can use:-

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# cfdisk

or

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$ sudo cfdisk

Both will run cfdisk as root. Good luck  

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Posted by IAN442 on May 18 2006,02:14

i try to run cfdisk since im running DSL off a CD-RW

i got to aterm - now it says fatal error. the cf disk is connected via usb and is totally clean.

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Posted by IAN442 on May 23 2006,01:40

backup here... i connected the CF disk with an IDE reader. each time i did a command like formatting or writing the partitions i'd reboot the DSL, then go to install and it would proceed only to toss me a GRUB 1.5 load error.

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Posted by ZoOp on May 23 2006,12:36

Hi,
I don't exactly know your hardware specifications, but here one possible idea:

1. try to run cfdisk in 'dsl init 2' mode (type it at prompt);
2. partition your CF-Card in two partition (hda1 bootable and hda5 logical f.ex.); no swaps becaus it could damage your card;
3. once this done, restart DSL off of the CD;
3. then install DSL on the first partition of your CF from your CD-RW; an advice: choose the frugal install, there are a lot of good experiences with it and CF cards.

Hope it will help a bit.
yours
z

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Posted by doobit on May 23 2006,12:53

There's no real need to write two partitons, unless you will want to make persistant /home and /opt on the second partition to save when you update DSL later on. The partition(s) need to be Linux ext2 partitions for DSL to work. Frugal grub install works great for me. Make sure you pick the i for install and not the u for update. That way a new grub configuration file will be written and you will not get the grub error.

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