HD is very small

Forum: HD Install
Topic: HD is very small
started by: miscellone

Posted by miscellone on May 11 2006,13:18

Hello,

I wonder if it is possible to install a DSL on a very small hard disk (64 MB) and a ram of 128 MB.

DSL boots well from CDROM. I just copied the directories /boot and /KNOPPIX from /cdrom to /dev/hdc1.

I don't know how can I make a hard disk bootable. I tried to start syslinux, but got the following error:
"This doesn't look as a FAT filesystem"

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

Regards
Misha

Posted by ZoOp on May 11 2006,14:20

here a little how to

1. run dsl from your cd rom without copying anything on your hd;
2. once dsl is up and running, right click in order to get the menu, choose then Apps-->Tools-->Frugal Install-->Frgual Grub Install (I like it much than Lilo);
3. follow the lines in the xterm; when it asks where you want dsl to be installed, tip hda1; it installs dsl on 50 MB space on your hd;
4. reboot;
5. enjoy.

Look at the forum in order to learn what is a frugal install, why it is one of the most used install procedure, how you can edit grub in order to modify the parameters at boot, how to optimize your use of dsl according to your ram etc.

yours
z.

Posted by ZoOp on May 11 2006,14:22

edit: in order to know how to format your hd properly, look at cfdisk in the forum or init 2
yours
z

Posted by miscellone on May 12 2006,10:42

Ok, now it works well!

The next problem is: how to preserve my networking settings after reboot?

Thanks
Misha

Posted by miscellone on May 12 2006,13:28

Ok, I found it!!!

Thanks anyway
Misha