.7.2 HD Install Issue
Forum: HD Install
Topic: .7.2 HD Install Issue
started by: clivesay
Posted by clivesay on July 17 2004,05:43
Has anyone else had trouble installing .7.2 on a hard drive? I cannot get it to install. If I run the dsl-hdinstall script I get "sorry system has not detected a linux partition". I know that the partition is Linux because I install all of my linux distros there to test. I even did a mke2fs /dev/hda8 on the partition. If I go back to .7.1 it will install. Thanks
Chris
Posted by wetterau on July 19 2004,03:49
Add me to the list. Cannot install to hard drive of Thinkpad 600 after hours of reconfiguring partition table with both cfdisk and fdisk. Mkliloboot finds "an inconsistent partiton table" even though the sectors look perfect when viewed. Have tried 1, 2, and 3 partitions using instructions and tips from this forum. Nothing works. A single bootable Linux partition; a bootable Linux partition and a swap partition; a fat32 partition, a bootable Linux partition, and a swap partition; a bootable Linux partion, a swap partition, and a fat32 partition. Nada.Otherwise, this seems like a great distro so far. Any ideas? Thanks.
Posted by cbagger01 on July 19 2004,05:22
Does 0.7.1 work?Or do both versions fail?
Posted by wetterau on July 19 2004,05:29
I used 7.2. Thanks.
Posted by madmanx on July 19 2004,05:41
Another on the list -System = Sony laptop, P-II 300MHz, 64MB RAM, 4GB HD, PCMCIA modem and NIC.
v7.1 installed fine, then I saw you had a v7.2 - d/led and ran -runs fine, tried install - no go, rebooted and ran a runlevel 2 and tried from there - still no go, realized I had been using the following startup command:
dsl dma xvesa enhance
so re-ran cfdisk, removed all partitions, recreated one for / one for swap, rebooted with no commands - same result - v7.2 will not install:
"Sorry system has not detected a Linux partition."
Posted by roberts on July 19 2004,05:53
We are aware of the issue with hard drive install. It will be fixed in 0.7.3 out RSN. No problems with liveCD and only affects certain drive geometries. 0.7.2 will install to some hard drives, not all. Thanks to Chris for helping me find this problem.
Posted by wetterau on July 19 2004,06:50
Thanks. Looking forward to 7.3. Excellent work.
Posted by wetterau on July 19 2004,08:22
Success! Able to install to hda1 using frugal install from url. Great little routine, found 7.2, downloaded it, installed it. Amazing.
Posted by mpie on July 19 2004,08:29
make a boot floppy for frugal and now try standard hd-install from the new frugal install to a new partition made in the usual way. The boot floppy is handy as if something goes wrong with your hd install then use the boot floppy to remount the frugal install and have an easy reliablr hd install 
-just a thought and it's the way i run dsl as i cannot install from url due to ram limits
Posted by libretto on July 29 2004,21:57
No success here 
Trying to install DSL 0.7.3 on my HDD, which is on the secondary IDE channel (no choice, theres little room in my mini-itx box
).As people have said it earlier it complains of 'no linux partition' despite cfdisk showing there is.
Any ideas?
Also, was going to give the frugal method a try, but it specifies /dev/hda HDDs only, can it be made to work with '/dev/hdc'
