AMD 5x86Forum: HD Install Topic: AMD 5x86 started by: Giskard Posted by Giskard on July 16 2006,16:56
Hey guys i finally got this link and i wanna try this linux distribution, but my question is how?i mean i have a cd, no usb, but i dont have cd boot option, so how can i install linux? PD:i have a 4gb HD drive, my 30gb dont work with this pc Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 16 2006,17:01
You could use a boot floppy to boot the cdrom, as one option.
Posted by Giskard on July 16 2006,18:37
yup i can do that, but after that what? i did that to install win98, with install.exe but how can i do that with DSL?
Posted by brianw on July 16 2006,18:57
You can right click on the desktop to get a menu. Under the Tools menu there are options to install. What kind of install are you thinking about? You can do a frugal install (which copies the image to the win98 partition and installs a boot manager so you can boot to win98 or DSL). If the system is slower and you don't have a lot of ram you may want to do a regular HD install (which would require repartitioning unless you already have a partition available, one for swap would also be good). Using the frugal install you can set up a dos swap file (similar to what windows uses) if you have low ram.
Posted by Giskard on July 16 2006,19:23
well i guess i better get rid of win98 and install just dsl, 32mb of ram wont handle too much.thats why i want to do a clean hd install, i went to download page, but cant find the frugal install, i just found some isos and the boot disk File: dsl-3.0.1-embedded.zip 51180 KB 21/06/2006 File: dsl-3.0.1-syslinux.iso 50210 KB 20/06/2006 File: dsl-3.0.1-vmx.zip 49911 KB 20/06/2006 File: dsl-3.0.1.iso 50592 KB 20/06/2006 11:58:00 p.m. So wich one should i use, and how, any tutorial to install dsl through diskette and HD? i found a couple but with CD Posted by Giskard on July 16 2006,20:41
ooops i read the readme first, so im going to try now frugal install, hope it works, if not i know where to come back, ill try usingfrugal and bootfloppy Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 16 2006,23:33
I did not mean to use a win98 boot floppy.. but another one such as grub, sbm, etc.
Posted by Giskard on July 17 2006,03:35
ok i could boot, i could see everything (i guess) but from cd, how can i format my hd for linux? because with my win98 boot i can format to fat32 but i dont think that will work
Posted by brianw on July 17 2006,15:35
use the commands from a terminal window: sudo fdisk or sudo cfdisk for partitioning sudo mke2fs /dev/hda? (the partiton number goes where the ? is) for formatting the ext2 partiton for linux use mkswap /dev/hda? to format any swap partition you create If you use the install to HD instead of the frugal install it will format automatically For the frugal install I think that the partition must be formatted but the format is not really important (only for the swap partition if you plan to have a seperate swap). You can use a seperate swap partition or use a dos swap file. Your system specs will determine what kind of install you do. More ram means frugal is best but low ram machines are best with regular HD install. There is no reason you can't have win98 and DSL installed together (make sure win98 is installed first) but you will probably find DSL will be your main OS. |