Installing after booting into runlevel 2

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Installing after booting into runlevel 2
started by: jgombos

Posted by jgombos on Nov. 13 2006,16:17

How can I initiate an HD install if I don't have the GUI menu? I would like to try a frugal install first, then possibly a conventional install.

Posted by roberts on Nov. 13 2006,16:19

The command dslinstall will bring up a command line installation menu.

Posted by jgombos on Nov. 13 2006,16:42

Thanks! That worked, after I partitioned with fdisk and formatted with mkfs.ext2.

(For some reason it didn't work the first time when I let the install routine do the formatting.. it responded "no space left on device").

Posted by roberts on Nov. 13 2006,19:25

Anytime you repartition it is always best to reboot.
This will ensure that the correct partition table will be used.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 13 2006,23:15

As long as you dont read from that disk before you write, you will not be required to restart - but otherwise you'll usually have to.

Posted by jgombos on Nov. 20 2006,04:54

I think you guys are right on the money about rebooting to update the cached partition table - that is, whatever the OS has in memory.

Is there a way to refresh that without rebooting?

Posted by roberts on Nov. 20 2006,05:59

You can try:

hdparam -z

But not sure if it always successful.