installing from iso

Forum: HD Install
Topic: installing from iso
started by: Roar

Posted by Roar on Jan. 31 2007,04:55

Hello all,

I down loaded 2 versions of dsl and I do not get very far from boot.

This is what happens...

using dpms dos protected mode services
cache size:7670 kb (xms)
minimum cache size : 1024 kb
write through drives: A B

Current options
/MLX program is loaded into conventional & XMS memory using dpms
/BL=16 look ahead buffer is in conventional memory size in kb
/Lend=ON lend memory to other applications-6646kb available
/Delay=OFF write delay is disabled, caching is write through

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
copyright © 1976, 1998 caldera, inc. all rights reserved
[DR-DOS] A:\>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

P.S.

I am tring to put DSL on a emachine, 533mhz, 32 meg sd ram, 8.4 g hd, floppy drive, cd rom that seems to be working.

I have the bios set to 1st boot cd rom, 2nd hdd.

I also tried to boot up on another box that I am currently using.

Thanks for any help.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 31 2007,21:58

You probably did not burn the cd properly. Please see the wiki on how to burn an .iso as a CD image.

Posted by Roar on Jan. 31 2007,22:41

Thanks, I did read through that info, but I am new to burning so that could very well be the problem. :blush: Back to reading...I will post either new questions or results.

Thanks again.

Posted by Colonel Panic on Feb. 10 2007,00:15

Hi! I'm new to DamnSmallLinux but not to Linux, though I'm still learning.

I recently downloaded an ISO of DSL and want to know if it's possible to boot it up from an ext2 partition (or two) belonging to a different Linux distribution? It's no problem to extract the files from the ISO as I have Midnight Commander installed, but I'd need to know what files go where and what entries to put on my Lilo configuration file.

At present I dual-boot between Windows XP (NTFS, so I don't think I could use Loadlin) and Vector Linux 5.8. I've got a main Vector partition which contains my boot subdirectory and a secondary one on which I store my tar and config file copies for when I need to reinstall.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Colonel Panic .

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 10 2007,02:01

Colonel Panic: Although your question doesn't have to do with this thread's particular problem... I will try to answer it here.

Booting from an iso: you'll probably need a special bootloader. (haven't done this myself)

Manual frugal (the way I install mine): Extracting the iso's contents onto some place on a partition (you won't need everything here...). Add the boot configuration for a frugal installation in your bootloader (see {iso|sys}linux/{iso|sys}linux.cfg for some bootloader customization, or search around the web) . Reboot.

Posted by Colonel Panic on Feb. 11 2007,10:40

Thanks for the info. I get the message, you'd rather I'd started a new thread. Sorry.

I've downloaded a frugal install.sh from the web and will have a look at amending it for use with either lilo (my usual boot manager for Vector) or tomsrtbt.

Thanks,

Colonel Panic.

Posted by Colonel Panic on Feb. 13 2007,08:56

I tried it but the install failed, and I'm reluctant to risk trashing a partition on which I already have data. I might have a go at spliting up the iso and loading the bits separately from LILO, my main distro's boot manager; if there's an easy way of doing that and it's already been covered here, I'd be grateful for the link.

Best,

Colonel Panic.

Posted by roberts on Feb. 13 2007,15:40

You really only need three files for DSL.

linux24
minirt24.gz
KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX

Easiest method is to grab the zip file of DSL.
Even though you are not going to run embedded or Qemu, it is an easy upzip.

Then your question becomes a lilo question based on the format and version of lilo of your existing distribution.

In fact, with just the KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX and the DSL boot floppy you should be able to run DSL without distrubing your existing setup.

Posted by Colonel Panic on Feb. 15 2007,00:18

Using the DSL boot floppy sounds like a very good idea. I might give that a go soon.

Thanks for the tip,

Best,

Colonel Panic.