install problem

Forum: HD Install
Topic: install problem
started by: Spidla

Posted by Spidla on Mar. 16 2004,19:09

I wnat to install DSL on my HD.
First I switched to root (using 'sudo su!), then I created new big partition (using 'cfdisk /dev/hda') partition is primary, bootable and it has 8GB (Seagate Disk).
Then I used dsl-hdinstall. Everything was allright, ext2 has been made, files have been copied and then it happened.
I choose to run mkliloboot and I received some error messages like :

warning cannot find proc/partitions
error file system would be damaged by LILO

or something like that

I tried to install lilo myself but i got error like read-only file system

please help

Posted by len on Mar. 16 2004,23:08

try /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda.

zero-fill the hard drive, & clear the mbr w/ seagate disk wizard, and then try again. hdd also should be diagnosed to be certain it's ok. zero-fill/ nuking the hdd should help out. cleaning up the mbr is important as well.

when you go into cfdisk, you should create a type 83 partition for linux, and a type 82 volume for the swap file space. just sutract 100mb or so for the swapfile space from the total hdd volume, create the type 83 volume partition (type 83 is default), select down arrow, and select type, select type 82, and then select <b>write</b> to write the partitions to disk. then it's a matter of formatting the primary as /dev/hda1, and the swap as /dev/hda2. after the partitions are formatted, then do the dsl-hdinstall command, and when completed perform the mkliloboot command. i found that the commands worked better w/ o the "./" (if the dsl-hdinstall notes still show the commands as ./mkliloboot, and ./dsl-hdinstall- it was my experience that the commands worked as dsl-hdinstall, and mkliloboot).

btw, from my experience so far (dsl .4.10- or earlier version, i forget which one), hard drive install needed some improvement.

Posted by bussy_men on April 14 2004,21:52

I have a problem.....ai have download the dsl 062 end ai want to know if ...it ken run to a pc whit cpu-66Mhz & 12 ram...and if ken run...how ken i install it . Problem number 2 ...i don't have a cd-rom...but I have a flopy disk...10x anticipated!!