Fujitsu Lifebook B-Series HD install help

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Fujitsu Lifebook B-Series HD install help
started by: velmeran42

Posted by velmeran42 on May 15 2006,21:48

Ok, I'll try to be as brief as possible with out skipping over anything critical.
* Linux NooB, never really touched it
* PC literate, I'm a compitent Windows / DOS user, so I can handle technical stuff, but I'm new to Linux

I've set up three partitions on the HD
hda1 - boot, primary, linux, 100MB
hda5 - logical, linux swap, 224MB
hda3 - primary, linux, the rest of the HD (over 2GB)

I can't get the PCMCIA CD drive to work with the boot disks, so I made a DSL USB thumbdrive, but need to use the USB bootdisk, since the laptop can't boot from USB.

I can get DSL to launch this way, but when I try to install to HD (hda1) it says "Cannot open: No such file or directory" for almost every file, then when it gets to the mkdirs at the end of the install, it says "No space left on device"

I can't get grub to install either,gzip says... no space, crc error, and incorrect length. Then "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock, on /dev/loop0, or too many mounted file systems".

So my main issue is, am I trying to install to the wrong partition? Am I missunderstanding something rather obvious and basic? I'm sure someone with experience can help me out pretty easily, so please, will someone set the noob straight?

Thanks guys,
Velmeran42

Posted by velmeran42 on May 16 2006,00:02

Alright, installed clean to hda3 w/ grub loader.