Old laptop's install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Old laptop's install
started by: peter rus

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 12 2006,17:03

i have a quite old laptop here, specs:

150 mhz CPU
16mb ram
usb
cd-rom

with cfdisk (from another distro cd) i managed to get two partitions on my HD, a swap partition of 160mb and 2Gb's of space to install dsl. the normal partition is called hda5 and the swap one is hda6.

what exactly do i have to do to install dsl to my harddisk, there is no window$ or anything else on my hd. so what to do now?

Posted by torp on Feb. 12 2006,17:21

have you booted the liveCD? if so look at the file that pops up in dillo. it gives you simple instructions for both the frugal and traditional HD installs....if thats not enough check the wiki.....then use the search function here at the forum and read the questions and answers to this and a biuzillion other questions. good luck!

torp

p.s you might try "fb800x600 lowram" for booting the liveCD

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 12 2006,17:23

Quote (torp @ Feb. 12 2006,12:21)

ah, i've already tried to boot it. with the framebuffering mode. but that doesnt really seem to succed. so i still havent booted dsl at al. i wil try that lowram thingy

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 12 2006,19:25

well i tried. but no things get nasty (this also happened before):

I get a spamload of errors all like: Cloop: read error at pos... blaalbllaablaa...

bytes lost
more of this cloop stuff
all these errors are about KNOPPIX. this file or whatever is located in cdrom/knoppix/KNOPPIX
then i get this:
INIT ID "1" respawning too fast: disables for five minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runmode.

What the penguin is this?

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 13 2006,17:54

Can you boot with some other kinda OS, IE: DOS or Tom's Root Boot Disk?

Then you can create and format a FAT or EXT2 partition.

Then copy the \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file over to this partition.

Then try a boot floppy, without using the CD disk.

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 13 2006,18:53

i can use cfdisk from another distro's cd (slackware) then i can create some partitions, i have 2156mb of disk space. how should i divide this? (do i need a swap partition?)

then i can boot dsl base system (i managed to do that)

a boot floppy? what? and how?

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 13 2006,19:13

You need at least 50MB for your temporary FAT or EXT2 partition to store the \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file.

You also should set up 64MB or maybe even 128MB for a linux swap partition.

The rest can be used for a full HD installation, if desired.

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 13 2006,19:35

okay, i made the partitions, now i will try to copy the file

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 14 2006,19:53

strange, i can't acces my DSL cd in boot. i have used a win98 rescuedisc to boot dos and load the cd-rom drivers. now when i want to acces the E: drive (c: is 50 mb of fat to place the knoppix filem d: is a virtual drive to load dos) and i give the dir command i get a error which says dos cant read the disc, so i tried if my cd-rom drive could read a ubuntu cd. and this was possible. so what to do now?

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 14 2006,19:55

i can even read my self made slackware CD

Posted by doobit on Feb. 14 2006,21:03

Sounds like you didn't burn the CD right. Make sure you burn the iso as a CD image, not simply copy it over as data.

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 14 2006,21:06

wel the sys-isolinux version seems to work well with my cd player. i gotta go now, but tonight i will try booting linux and then copy it to my hd. more from me tomorow

Posted by doobit on Feb. 14 2006,21:20

When you boot from the DSL CD you will eventually come to a graphic desktop. Right click on the desktop to get menus. There is a tools menu under applications that gives you install options.

Posted by peter rus on Feb. 15 2006,09:43

the farrest i came is the X desktop. (i could even move my mouse for an inch (very, very laggy!) and then my laptop died. when booting i got this cloop error again (alot of them) so i tried the boot parameter "install" this seemed to work. dsl installed the files to my hd. while doing that i got that cloop error and other errors about missing files again. so my opinion is: something wrong with my cd-drive, cause every cd i burn gives the same error (all about missing or corrupt files) so i am gonna make a usb boot stick and try it again (later this day)