installing to the hd

Forum: HD Install
Topic: installing to the hd
started by: se7en

Posted by se7en on Jan. 26 2004,22:57

i tryed what it said, made a partition using cfdisk, but..thats about as far as i got, i dont really understand cfdisk and the instructions..is there a better guide for installing to the HD?

Posted by Ekylypse on Jan. 27 2004,04:23

Try this, Open the Term.

Code Sample

#: fdisk /dev/hda*
d
1-4(delete all current partitions unless you decide otherwise)
n
p
1
w

#:dsl-hdinstall

*: Or the device to which you are installing.

Thats all

Posted by CappyCaffeine on Jan. 27 2004,04:57

what about a swap partition?

Cappy

Posted by se7en on Jan. 27 2004,23:55

lol thats cool, ill try that once i get a new monitor :P or mebbe ill move this monitor up to it :P thanx

Posted by Ekylypse on Jan. 28 2004,05:10

Well, if you have enough ram, you dont need swap, I dont need one. I should have one, and I need to make one on the 200MHz machine, but ya know.

Posted by TiYogi on Feb. 04 2004,04:58

Quote (Ekylypse @ Jan. 26 2004,23:23)

Try this, Open the Term.

Code Sample

#: fdisk /dev/hda*
d
1-4(delete all current partitions unless you decide otherwise)
n
p
1
w

#:dsl-hdinstall

*: Or the device to which you are installing.

Thats all

Hi,
First of all I am just starting so I am not fimilar with all of the terms use here. In your first statement you say "Open the term", I am assuming that it means terminal. The trouble is I have no idea where the terminal is. Is it located somewhere on the desktop or is it in the group when you right click the mouse?

Am I suppose to type the instructions exactly as write.

#: fdisk /dev/hda This involes fdisk and makes a partition name dev on my harddrive.

What is the next stuff mean?
d
1-4(delete all current partitions unless you decide otherwise)
n
p
1
w

Do I also type in the last step?
#:dsl-hdinstall Does this install DSL to the harddrive (hda) in a partition named "dev"?

Thanks I'll check back later.