Unable to do a hard disk install on a Dell

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Unable to do a hard disk install on a Dell
started by: buzzbob

Posted by buzzbob on Jan. 27 2007,22:32

I have been trying to load DSL onto a Dell latitude CPI. I must use a floppy which gets me to the boot prompt. I have the 3.2 Syslinux iso in the CD. I then let it boot with no changes. When it does it shows many errors of not finding files. It then gets to the prompt: dsl@tty1[dsl]$. I then went into sudo -s to run cfdisk to create 2 partisions hda1 (82) and hda2 (bootable) (83). Then rebooted. When it gets back to the same dsl.... prompt I again sudo -s then run dsl-hdinstall, it ask for the partition (hda2), multiuser (n) and ext3 filesystem (n) followed by continue (y). It then immediately fails with the following errors:

/usr/sbin/dsl-hdinstall: line 88: /tmp/hdinst.tmp.616: no such file or directory

An error occurred while creating the filesystem.
Some messages from mkfs:
/tail: /tmp/hdinst.tmp.616: No such file or directory
tail: no files

it then returns to the root@box prompt. I have redownloaded the iso, check md5, burned the cd with infra recorder. Anyone have any suggestions...

Posted by roberts on Jan. 27 2007,22:55

I am guessing that you have low memory.

Please try the new boot floppy in the Release Candidate download section. It works better for low ram systems.

At the first boot prompt try this:

boot: dsl 2 legacy

Then at the # prompt

# dsl-hdinstall

Hopefully you have already partitioned the drive for swap 82 and linux 83.

Posted by buzzbob on Jan. 28 2007,00:15

Thanks, that did it. Now, I will have to play around with the xsetup.sh to get a readable screen.