instal DSL with no CD
Forum: HD Install
Topic: instal DSL with no CD
started by: ora
Posted by ora on Dec. 20 2005,18:41
hi can you answer me how to do it ??
i have old laptop and this laptop have only floppy diskette
I have a (net)ethernet card
Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Dec. 20 2005,20:45
< Try me! >
Posted by ora on Dec. 20 2005,22:20
thx for answer 
Posted by logicmaster2003 on Dec. 21 2005,05:56
hi ..following your link which is
2.d - Floppy Only Install with Netcard (Poormans Install)
it ask us to download TOMSRTBT and I've followed exactly the procedure...
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4) GNU/Linux installation a) extract the .tar.gz archive b) Be root c) Be in the tomsrtbt-<version> directory d) Have a blank floppy with no bad sectors e) Do './install.s' The script assumes you have ELF and that your 3.5" 1.44M floppy is on fd0. |
* I've exited out of the desktop to the command prompt and entered "SUDO SU" to enable ROOT
* Then I mounted fd0 via "mount/dev/fd0"
* then when I try to do the command "./install.s", it says
"bash: ./install.s: No such file or directory"
any idea what I should do ??
so anyways... i boot back to the desktop environment, opened up emelfm and went to the directory where the program was extracted to. I've "ight-click" on install.s and selected the pull down menu Execute in xterm.. then it shows..
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| don't forget to READ teh FAQ Insert a blank writable 3.5" floppy diskette then strike ENTER" |
when i hit ENTER it says..
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About to fdformat /dev/fd0u1722 /dev/fd0u17ss: Device or resource busy FAILE fdformat error Enter to continue... |
Posted by logicmaster2003 on Dec. 22 2005,01:12
update: (Pentium 75mhz + fd drive + 24MB ram + 1GB hd + external parallel port cdrom drive)I've managed to install MSDOS 6.22 on my laptop, then, the the LPT parallel port external cdrom driver. Rebooted and I was able to change directory to the external cdrom drive (drive D).
Then copied the D:\KNOPPIX directory to C:\KNOPPIX.
Inserted the bootfloppy and actually got far .. as far as ..
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Autoconfiguring devices .. done Mouse .. Scanning for Harddisk Partitions and createing /etc/fstab .. done. Network device .. .. Checking for myDSL apps.. done INIT: Entering runlevel:5 su(pam_unix)[736]: session opened for user dsl by (uid=0) Using Xvesa default 1024x768x32 -mouse "/dev/psaux" mouse xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority givng up. xinit: Broken pipe (errno 32): unable to connect to X server. xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 13 dsl@tty1[dsl$]_ |
but then what do i do now ? whats the next step ? Thanks in advance
Posted by logicmaster2003 on Dec. 23 2005,09:10
hmm
Posted by cbagger01 on Dec. 27 2005,18:04
Try typing:xsetup.sh
and try some different graphics settings.
Then type
startx
to try them out.
Also, you can try to boot with
fb800x600
command or maybe:
dsl vga=769 xsetup
and then choose xfbdev server
Other graphics modes are listed in the F3 menu