Help! It isn't working =(

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Help! It isn't working =(
started by: scottxs

Posted by scottxs on July 01 2005,05:14

I'm trying to use DSL in a Packard-Hell I garbage-picked, to use as a packet-sniffer on my net. 100MB HD & 50MB Ram, so I need to do a "frugal install"?

I read a pdf on frugal install, executed frugal_instal.sh, on hda1 but afterwards, X didn't work; couldn't find /home/dsl/.xdesktop

I don't get what is happening. I'm a M$ lamer, with a bit of unix exp.

So I boot the CD ISO on a modern PC with the ancient 100MB drive in IDE0, "dsl 2", and execute frugal_instal, using opt=hdc1 and home=hdc1

When I re-boot the 100MB drive in the evil Packard Bell, I can boot into X, but I don't get Icons or menu option.

If the CD is in the drive and mounts (from some magic in /etc/mtab) I get icons.

I don't get it. No doubt something to do with the image over-writting my /home/dsl/*

Help!

Thanks,

Scott

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on July 01 2005,06:48

If the PB only has the 100mb disk, why are you pointing home and opt to hdc1?

that might be a very large part of the problem.

try pointing them to hda1.

-J.P.

Posted by scottxs on July 01 2005,18:25

I point home and opt to hdc1 so X can find them. If I (frugal_instal.sh) install using hda1, X will not start; I get an error message:

"mount: can't find /mnt/hdsa1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"
"mount: can't find /mnt/hdsa1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

"Checking for myDSL apps... mount: mount point /home/dsl/.xtdesktop does not exist"

"unmount: /home/dsl/.xtdesktop not found

And it doesn't find the desktop links or fluxbox menu either.

If I install pointing home & opt to hdc1, it works with the CDROM in, but I lose my icons & menu if the DSL cd isn't in.

BTW, the ancient monitor can only handle certain scan rates, which is another problem!

How do you minimize & resize apps at 640x480 using the keyboard? the em file manager fills the screen, can't be resized so I have to cntrl-alt-del out of X to stop it. Alt-x gets me out of dillo.

Is there a Xvesa utility to check video-monitor modes, so I can set the right svga mode for my monitor?

Thanks,

Scott

Posted by scottxs on July 01 2005,18:40

I swapped the ide cables and fixed my problem; linux must be labling the drive hdc because its on the second controller channel. Another consequence of being dumbed-down with M$ Windows.

I still need to minimize apps to fit 640x480, and fix the video scan rate for my ancient monitor to work at 1024x768. The cirrus-logic controller can do it but the monitor won't. Perhaps its an interlace problem?

Scott