I am so confused!

Forum: HD Install
Topic: I am so confused!
started by: ajd344

Posted by ajd344 on July 17 2005,18:34

Hi!
I made the partition, then booted of cd, F2, copy contents to hard drive. THEN restart, F2, boot of pervious copied files

Then I had to go through the screen res, mouse, etc setup

How do I get the computer to boot of the hard drive? The only way I can do it is through F2 - boot of previous copied files.

Is there a way to do this or will I have to do all this stuff everytime? Thanks

Posted by adssse on July 18 2005,04:42

I am not sure exactly what is being done, but since you are asking how to boot from the hard drive I am going under the notion that you are willing to do an install. If this is the case I would recommend a frugal install. Here is a great pdf explaining the installation.
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....wto.pdf >

And here is a thread explaining what it is.
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=adssse >

Again I am kind of reaching on what you are asking about, so if I am off base please forgive me.

Posted by ajd344 on July 18 2005,20:37

IT WORKS!!!!

I got the frugal install done!!! Yeah!

Thank you very much!

I have one last question:
It says stuff about 'xuesa' and you have to pick one. Then it says 'USB Mouse' and you have to pick one, and so on.

Is there a way to make it remember which ones?

THANKS

Posted by cbagger01 on July 18 2005,22:02

Yes.

Activate your Backup / Restore function.

See the docs for more details.

Posted by ajd344 on July 18 2005,22:05

Thanks!

Is there any downloads (programs) for DSL?

(i am a newbie with linux)

Posted by mgmont on July 19 2005,00:08

If you are connected to the internet, double click on the mydsl icon on the dsl desktop and a box will appear divided up into various application topics. Click on one of the lables and a list of programs that you can download will appear.

Hope this helps. Have fun.

Posted by ajd344 on July 19 2005,01:13

+edit+
Oh! I was using an old version!

OK, I did a full hard drive install and I am downloading a program now!

DSL is great!

Thanks