Installing from one partition to anotherForum: HD Install Topic: Installing from one partition to another started by: Happy Posted by Happy on Nov. 23 2004,11:20
I have a laptop without a cd-rom drive and with a 500mb hard drive.486 dx100, 500mb hd, 16mb ram with the following partitions /dev/hda1 * 1-425 linux native (ext3) /dev/hda2 426-489 vfat partition with broken dos os /dev/hda3 490-523 Linux swap After several days I have managed to get MUlinux (http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/) installed on /dev/hda1 with full pcmcia support. This took much disk swapping and was a very painful procedure... anyway the next thing I did was grab the iso, extract the files and place both the iso and the files into /dev/hda1 I am now at the point where I want to eventually install DSL linux onto /dev/hda1 but I have a great fear of taking the next step because of the pain endured in getting the laptop at all functional... I think I have to do it this way: Install onto /dev/hda2, set the boot flag and mbr reboot dsl on /dev/hda2, make sure I can set up pcmcia again and thus my safety net install dsl onto /dev/hda1, overwriting MUlinux. formatting /dev/hda2 as vfat again or removing it entirely... I would appreciate any assistance in this. especially some hints in installing dsl from a linux partition to another partition... none of the HOWTO's seemed to cover this quite unique case. edit:: Ignore all this I think I got it Posted by AwPhuch on Nov. 23 2004,14:46
I have a machine just like that with a little bit larger dorrito in it!< http://damnsmalllinux.org/install_from_floppy.html > rewrite here < http://awphuch2000.dyndns.org:1079/linux.....floppy > I hope it helps you out bud Brian AwPhuch Posted by Happy on Nov. 23 2004,21:07
yeah... I found the second page with rawwinwrite like two minutes after my first post... I'm pretty sure it's installed now. A few quick questions about it. is there anyway to prevent the startup to regenerate the ld.so.cache and modules.dep and the autoconfiguring of devices. I should only need to run that once even though it doesn't take all that long. and the second question: when I first log in it automatically starts the Xserver yet when I ctrl-alt-backspace out of it I can't get in with startx. I am assuming something else is being used instead. Ideally I want to be dumped to a terminal when I log in, instead of opening up the GUI... anyway I'm sure I can figure it out this is one professional looking distro =P Posted by skaos on Nov. 24 2004,11:02
Edit /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig where you comment out the line(s) with ldconfig. Posted by ico2 on Nov. 24 2004,16:49
to install from one partition to the other you could either copy the partition or use the hdinstall menu item. it will make a copy of itself on another partition including anything you have added.
Posted by elbriga on June 22 2005,20:55
edit the .bash_profile on /home/dsl and comment out all lines... This file will check if you are loggin from SSH, if not it wil exec starts. Gabriel - elbriGa |