Frugal install to hdb

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Frugal install to hdb
started by: kdre

Posted by kdre on Jan. 13 2006,16:56

Hi,

i want to install dsl 2.1b to hdb (instead of hda). The situation is, that I have a board with an compact flash socket hard wired as primary slave from which I would like to boot DSL.

What do I have to change in DSL to make it frugal installable to hdb?

Greetings,
Klaus

Posted by AwPhuch on Jan. 14 2006,03:33

Do you have a bootloader on the MBR of the cfdisk??

If so then just edit it, and add an entry to allow you to boot into the hdb of DSL

STF for the correct grub/lilo boot log entry to point it there

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Installing_Grub > <--just edit to reflect hdb1 or whatever as the location of the kernel and initrz file and that "should" work

Brian
AwPhuch

Posted by kdre on Jan. 14 2006,12:39

Thank you for your reply. If it is that easy then I will have no problems installing DSL on hdb. I thought DSL itself needs "hda" to run properly.

I will give it a try.

Greetings,
Klaus

Posted by eMeRy on Jan. 14 2006,14:13

Actually the "frugal_install.sh" script asks you to install DSL to hdax.
Boot from live-cd, chose 'frugal install' then you can chose any other hard drive (for me hdd1 is the 'dsl' partition and hdd2 for /home and /opt) but don't forget to modify grub or lilo by hand.

PS.You need an existing bootloader on your bootdrive.

Posted by starscalling on Jan. 17 2006,05:17

eh its that existing bootloader thing thats killing me !_! trying to get a frugal install on /dev/hdc2 to work.. dont wanna kill a cdrom for just grub and have no floppies lol././. will edit when i figure how i can make work with whats given if i can >.<