Need some info on HDD install

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Need some info on HDD install
started by: jepper

Posted by jepper on April 14 2005,19:23

hi

this is the situation
i have a pentium 133 mhz, 1,6 gb hdd and 16 mb ram computer.
Had some troubles booting from cd but used oldbios to boot the cd from a floppt
I know running it live into the ram doesnt work because i dont have enough ram

i got into the root by booting with this option: dsl 2 (no X)

windows 98 is still installed on the pc, so i need to format
then i think i need a program to partitionate my hdd (dont know if this is correct in english, im dutch)
and last but not least install it to the harddisk

i searched and read a lot of posts but they dont really match my problem i think, some people talk about frugel, but i dont know what it is.

k im a linux n00b so please explain it to me step by step

jasper

(if there is any previous message matching this please give a link and delete my post

and sorry in that case)

Posted by jepper on April 14 2005,19:48

i tryed to load DSL from the harddisk by putting the knoppix file in
C:/knoppix/knoppix

but now i get an anoying error

"cant find knoppix file system" and a shell with 6 options

how do i pass this message?

Posted by Caspar_s on April 14 2005,20:56

What are you booting with?
Make sure it is C:/knoppix/knoppix and not C:/Knoppix/Knoppix or something like that.
dsl fromhd=/dev/hda1

Posted by jepper on April 14 2005,21:10

im booting with the floppy image
the adress is correct
i'll try the hdd command

Posted by cbagger01 on April 14 2005,22:24

Needs to be lowercase letters for knoppix\knoppix

After booting DSL into minimal GUI, immediately choose the Create DOS swap file option from the menu and create a 64MB or larger swap file.

Then reboot the machine.

I have found

dsl vga=785 xsetup base noicons

and choose xfbdev server

will sometimes work with low memory computers.