Installing over old linux installForum: HD Install Topic: Installing over old linux install started by: Morrison Posted by Morrison on Jan. 26 2004,00:21
O.K., my HD is already partitioned, I have RedHat 9 installed. It's an 80 Gb HD, but I want to replace RedHat 9 with little tiny DSL.Do I still need to creat a new partition for DSL, or can I just format the HD and install. Or just install and DSL will do the formatting for me? Posted by roberts on Jan. 26 2004,01:53
The install script will do the formatting. You will be prompted for which partition.Be sure to run the script via the sudo command. sudo dsl-hdinstall Posted by Morrison on Jan. 26 2004,02:06
But will it also give me the choice to format other partitions in the HD? Or that's something I'll ave to do after installing DSL?Let's say I have my HD partitioned like this: /dev/hda1 -- boot (size 400 megs) /deb/hda2 -- home (size 52.9 Gb) /deb/hda4 -- root (size 19.0 Gb) Let's say I install DSL on /dev/hda1, will it stay in that in that partition alone, or will DSL also make use of the other partitions (like RedHat 9 is doing right now?) Posted by roberts on Jan. 26 2004,05:35
No only one partition. Remember this was designed to be a liveCD and running from ram with toram is the best way. The hard drive install was something that came along later. So, don't expect this to be like RedHat. If you do have a swap partition DSL will use it.
Posted by Morrison on Jan. 26 2004,06:10
Do you know an easy way to format those partitions?I have tomsrtbt, but I don't know which tool in there could help me to safely format those partitions. Posted by Del on Jan. 26 2004,19:29
As mentioned, if you install to one partition, it'll stay there. However, after install, edit /etc/fstab and tell DSL to use the other partitions as well. Personally, I'd install it to /dev/hda1 (boot) and setup fstab to use /dev/hda2 as /home and hda4 as (something like) /usr.If tomsrtbt has cfdisk, use that. Never used TomsRB myself though, so I'm not really of much help. Posted by Morrison on Jan. 26 2004,20:56
O.K., I did the install and formated the other partitions. So now. How do I exactly edit /usr/fstab so DSL can use the other partitions?Its very cool so far. I feel I can take this distro wherever I want. I just have to read a lot. I also cant get sound to work. Even though DSL does seem to recognize the VIA soundchip at startup. Not even when running from CD. Posted by Mistshadow on Jan. 27 2004,08:53
I have the sound problem too, on both my computers. One is a Via that gives me trouble with some distros, and the other is a Sound Max that works with everything but DSL. I believe the problem is the lack of Alsa; I know that all the distros that work good using the sound on my computers use Alsa (checked in the control center of KDE). That leads me to my question: if DSL is installed to the hd, can you just apt-get alsa? I'm asking because apt has always been troublesome to me (such-and-such depends such-and-such but isn't going to be installed or I need to remove 328 packages to install 21 packages...) Posted by Morrison on Jan. 28 2004,05:36
O.K. I give up. For now.I ended up installing Fedora Core 1, which is kinda Red Hat, but with that rebel "non-product feeling" I got. Here's the deal. DSL is AWESOME, but apt-get is a huge problem. The cool thing would be to make DSL easily upgradeable. Putting a C compiler that can compile RPM or something. I don't know. There's still a place in my heart (and my drive) for DSL. But if I can't get OpenOffice to work, I'm doomed. |