.:NOOB:. I NEED HELP DOING A FULL HD INSTALL

Forum: HD Install
Topic: .:NOOB:. I NEED HELP DOING A FULL HD INSTALL
started by: besby11

Posted by besby11 on Mar. 03 2006,23:49

hello and thankyou for reading this, im a noob win it comes to linux but i was cleaning out my closet and i found my first computer!! its a ibm valuepoint with a i48sx with dos 6.1 and i remenbered that dsl could run on a 486 but one slight problem iT DOESENT HAVE A C>D>ROM drive and i think i wont to use it as a compy for my bros sooo i took out the hd and plugged it into my other computer (witch is a FAST COMPUTER) and popted in the cd with dsl but i get into the cd and all i no wht to do is tho go tho the hd install wizrd and do it it tells me that its done ant to restart and i do it and it says thats theres nothing in it!!!!! any ideas?

Posted by colsinc on Mar. 04 2006,02:18

when I originally installed DSL, I used GRUB, and it couldn't seem to find DSL, so iI used lilo and it worked fine...all I can think of that might be your problem.

maybe you could temporarily attach a cd drive to the old compy to install it?

Posted by lovdsl on Mar. 04 2006,03:20

me thinks you need to copy the cd to old drive and put back in old machine and install from hd on old machine? or maby thats what you are doing.nevermind

Posted by larkl on Mar. 04 2006,12:45

You have some options, look in the wiki

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Posted by besby11 on Mar. 04 2006,18:39

do you need to have a grub bootloader,lillo or can u go without + win i go threw the install to hd wizard and ht don with it the darn thing wont boot tho the hd it acts like theres nothing on the hd do i have to set it to boot in cfddisk?? and i dont know wht to do to install it the dsl im usuing has a install wiz in it do i just cfdisk it and run the wiz or do i do all the crap in the wiz that it tells me in the wiki ti says something about mkspoon /dev/hda1 and swapon /dev/hda1 do i need to do that im srry if these sound like donb questions but im not all that good at linux.....yet :angry:

but anyway thanx

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Posted by lovdsl on Mar. 05 2006,06:35

you need to make at least two partitions on the drive. one for boot and one for swap..fdisk /dev/hda..if you are installing to the primary drive.."p" will show you the current partitions.."m" I think lists the options....like "n" "p" "a" "t" swap is 82...so decide the size and create the partitions...you will make one "boot""a" and one swap "t""82"..you will write them "w" and exit.. then make a file system ie: mke2fs /dev/hda1 for the boot ..make swap...mkswap /dev/hda2...turn on the swap file..swapon -a /dev/hda2...run dsl....at the initial dsl screen press f2 also f3 this will list the options..if your machine is to old to run X then choose options with care..if you are running a wizard always read carefully...yes you need a boot loader to boot up the install..grub or lilo..hope this helps