fdisk, cfdisk, or other?
Forum: HD Install
Topic: fdisk, cfdisk, or other?
started by: bjh
Posted by bjh on April 01 2006,06:28
Hi all-I've been using linux consistently for a few months now. What follows is my first attempt at a fresh install from the ground up of any linux distro, here goes:
I'm booting from a DSL bootfloppy to get the DSL live cd to boot on an old laptop that had/has a wiped hd so I can install to hd...
booting from the cd, I've created a boot partition, linux ext2 partition, and linux swap partition in /dev/hda with fdisk...after writing the partition tables and running mke2fs and mkswap I should be able to run dsl-hdinstall at the root prompt to copy the files from the live cd to the newly created partitions, right?
All seemed to go well and the copying completed successfully, then it asks me if I want to run mkliloloader (or something like that...sorry can't remember now, i gave up for tonight) so I say yes and I get the following error message:
cloop: error -5 uncompressing block ### #####/#####/#####/0 #######-#######
where the #'s are numbers...I'd imagine the actual numbers hold little relevance to the nature of the underlying problem, but I will gladly look them up if anyone thinks differently...
This message is endlessly repeated on the screen...initially I just let it run for 5 minutes or so, but after that I started to lose hope
Do I need to update cloop maybe? If so, how am I gonna get the update if I have no network connection, and both my floppy and cd-rom drive are occupied by the bootfloppy and live-cd? Well, my laptop has 32MB memory and DSL only needs what, 20MB, to run in text-only mode with toram? Is this right? If so, I guess I could run it in memory to free up the floppy drive...will this work, you reckon?
Also, I deleted the partitions I created and re-created them using cfdisk instead (read somewhere that this solved some dude's problem) but to no avail...
Man, it feels like I'm pretty close to at least getting the damn small thing to run in text mode from my hd, anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!!!!! Cheers!
Posted by cbagger01 on April 01 2006,06:41
More likely, you have a badly burned CD, or a corrupt download file.You can verify the checksum for the download file using the md5sum program.
As for burning the disk, try burning it to a CD-R disk at the lowest speed possible like 4x for example.
Posted by bjh on April 01 2006,06:58
hmmm...okay I'll give it a shot again tomorrow...yeah, I just saw the cloop wiki (should've done that first, doh!)damn, so I potentially wasted the last 8 hours, but I guess that's the learning curve for ya...
I'll post back results tomorrow...thanks!!!
Posted by aveline on April 03 2006,23:33
I recommend using md5summer in windows (if you are still using windows) to check md5 sums.aveline