From PMI to HDU
Forum: HD Install
Topic: From PMI to HDU
started by: antonino
Posted by antonino on Sep. 13 2006,14:48
Hi all,I managed to do a poor man's install on my 1998 fujitsu b110 lifebook with a cdrom connected through an even older argosy pcmciacard not recognised by the dsl bootfloppy. I wiped off win2000 (in NTFS) by a low level format, installed dos6.22, did an fdisk on c: and finally found the argosy pcmciacard driver so I could copy the Knoppix-file to the hdu.
Booting from floppy DSL found the Knoppix-file on /dev/hda1 and (after some experimenting with the vga-settings) the b110 was running DSL!
Now I like to 'transfrom' the machine into a real DSL-box (no need for dual boot). But what to do?
Running sudo cfdisk tells me I have a 3253 MB HDU om /dev/hda consisting of:
hda1, boot flag, primary partition, FAT16 fs, no name, 2146,96 MB,
and,
primary/log partition, free space fs, 1106,51 MB
Activating Apps/tools/Hard Drive Install tells me to enter the target partition (e.g. hda2).
I assume I first have to create this partition, but where?
In hda1?
In the free space?
With a size of?
And shouldn't there be a swap-partition as well?
All help and advice is appreciated!
Antonino - aka Ton Akveld
Posted by u2musicmike on Sep. 13 2006,22:39
You might have to do everything again or use something like qparted to make extra partitions. The first thing you should have done is made the extra partitions with cfdisk or fdisk. This is how I like to do mine:hda1 - 100 Meg swap linux type 82
hda2 - the rest of the hard drive. linux type 83
Once you make a partition it is hard to change it without destroying data. You can try loading hda1 as dos6.22 and change it to swap after DSL is installed.
Posted by antonino on Sep. 14 2006,16:48
Thank for the reply!I re-fdisked and cfdisked the hdu to create two partitions:
hda1: 500 MB, with DOS to boot (later to be made swap)
hda3: (2 didn't seem availabel) 2900 MB, type linux
Subsequently I did a sudo -u root dsl-hdinstall, but alas, this one couldn't find /cdrom/KNOPPIx/boot.img ...
Posted by u2musicmike on Sep. 14 2006,21:27
I am no expert on Linux but I was looking inside the frugal_lite script and it mounts the iso file to a directory so you might could do:| Code Sample |
mount /mnt/hda1/current.iso /cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop=/dev/loop0 |
First boot as dsl 2 try the above command and then run the dsl-hdinstall script. I might not have the directory or name of your .iso file right
Posted by antonino on Sep. 16 2006,17:20
YES!Thank you ever so much!
Besides having to work I had some trouble locating the cdrom-drive itself (not being a linux expert...). However after finding the little sod at /mnt/auto/cdrom and mounting current.iso to /cdrom from there the hdinstall worked like a charm.
One happy DSL'er!
