Good news and questionsForum: HD Install Topic: Good news and questions started by: NewDude Posted by NewDude on Mar. 07 2006,05:26
Hello, I just bought a Toshiba P266mhz, 96mb ram, two 2gb HD's, with a wireless WPC11 v.4 PCMCIA, came with a CD/DVD player.I had problems at first with the video. I did the fb800x600, xfbver (I think that was it), and the display looks great now. The WPC11 v.4 I used the realtek drivers rt8180 in NDISWRAPPER and that is working great, I am up on my wireless work. YES!!! My problem now is: Eventhough my computer has a CD/DVD the bios doesn't let me chose to boot to my CD. The way I booted now was I copied the KNOPPIX and BOOT directory onto C:\ and used the boot floppy. I want to install DSL on my HD. HOw would I go about doing this without a CD. I need to run fdisk, create the partitions and install the data. I am not sure how to do this with a CD. I don't want to keep booting to the floopy and doing the poor man's install. I want either a full HD install or a frugal? Do I create another partition with the whole CD copied to that partition? Thanks... Posted by aveline on Mar. 07 2006,05:44
I had a similar problem with a laptop I run. I ended up updating its bios to the last bios update possible (a 2002 bios revision iirc) & that allowed it to boot from CDRW's whereas before I could only use CDR's. Try that first perhaps.Aveline Posted by Guest on Mar. 07 2006,12:36
http://damnsmalllinux.org/static/&/act-ST&/f-5&/t-11902That might be the answer for your "problem" Posted by NewDude on Mar. 07 2006,14:21
aveline, great idea!!! I never thought of updating the bios. I still don't know if that will do it. Because right now, it only lets me boot to the floppy or the HD, but your idea is worth a try.If aveline's idea doesn't work, I am going to try fxb. fxb said: I have a couple questions fxb.. 1.Do a 130 - 256 mb Fat32 partition 2.Make loadlin install on it (you can find instructions from dsl wiki) 3.Boot your new dsl system and look if everything works fine 4.Make a linux partition from rest of your hd. 5.do a hd install. 6.boot to dsl. 7.Change the first partitions type to linux swap, Fat32 to linux swap 8.and reboot, then you should have your linux up and running "normally" Ok, what is the "loadin" install? I will try to look it up... Once I get my latop up and going, I will have 3 DSL 2.2B machines running. I might end up starting this all over when I start messing with OpenMosix. But this is all good practice. Posted by Guest on Mar. 07 2006,16:37
Wiki explains it all, its one of the poormans installs.By the way does anyone else than me know that install/boot from usb works also like this: 1. Unpack dslx.x.iso, copy unpacked files to usb stick 2. Copy dslx.x.iso to usb stick 3. Make dsl usb-floppy 4. boot from usb with that floppy 5. Do partitions and install Did you guys allready knowed that or am i the only one?or have i missed something? Posted by muskrat on May 26 2006,04:53
Unpack an ISO? Hows that done? I know we can mount an ISO like a file system. Posted by piccolo on May 26 2006,10:28
Extracting files from ISO image under Linux1. Create a folder to mount the image, in this example /mnt/iso 2. Change to directory where you have downloaded dsl-xxx.iso so, if dsl-xxx.iso is inside /home/dsl/folder_iso then: cd /home/dsl/folder_iso 3. type this command: mount -o loop -t iso9660 dsl-xxx.iso /mnt/iso Inside /mnt/iso folder you will have the files extracted from dsl-xxx.iso file. Then you can copy the files where you want or need before umount the /mnt/iso folder. Posted by muskrat on May 26 2006,14:14
Ok That's what I thought, that's mounting the ISO, not unpacking.I just didn't understand your termanalogy. I was aware that one could mount a ISO like a file system and then copy the content out. Make changes and creat a new ISO. But when I read unpack the ISO I thought there was a method to unpack them sort of like unpacking a gz file or a tar file. |