CD-less install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: CD-less install
started by: Karon

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Posted by Karon on Nov. 26 2004,17:19

Hello again, I'm trying to make a harddrive install (to an old laptop) without CD. After transferring the files to the laptop and starting with boot-disk it hangs at: Accessing DSL image at /dev/hda1...
If I look at the files from dos (W98 startdisk) they look precisely like the ones on the CD I have burned from ISO, and that works fine on another computer. What to do? How should the filesystem look prior to installation? Ie, after the extraction and transfer.
Anybody knows?

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Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 26 2004,20:29

The important thing is that you should have this part duplicated:

C:\KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX

which is the big file from your CD disk.

The location and spelling must be EXACTLY correct.

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Posted by larrycow on Nov. 27 2004,15:43

Hi !
I tried to use dsl on a old laptop (16 mo ram) without cd.
I just want to add something for those who don't want to use any floppy :
copy the cd burned on a logical partion of 60 mo
make a 11 mo primary and active partition
boot from the floppy
when dsl is up, rawwrite the boot.img to the primary partition : and then you go ...
for example :
i made a primary partion 11mo (/dev/hda4)
once i was within dsl i cd to boot.img
and  $dd if=boot.img of=/dev/hda4
You may edit the syslinux.cfg (i have change keyboard and run level )
Reboot !
No more floppy
bye

larry

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