hd install with out extraction?Forum: HD Install Topic: hd install with out extraction? started by: Shogakusha Posted by Shogakusha on Nov. 26 2003,10:02
I am thinking about setting up DSL on the hd of one of my old 486 boxes. I've plugged a cd drive into it, and was really impressed with the level of usability for being such an old machine. Anyway, along with the numerous 486s I have in my shed, are numerous small harddrives, and what I want to do is set up the 486 to boot off of it's own hard drive, probably 120-200 meg depending on the machine, with the iso file on the hd, and the rest of the hd set to a swap partition and maybe a small user partition. Is this doable? I know just enough about linux to be dangerous at this point...
Posted by KevB on Nov. 26 2003,11:16
Yes it is, basically you copy the CD to the HD and then use a boot disk to boot it. It's already been discussed on here so search the forum.
Posted by TyphoonMentat on Nov. 26 2003,20:57
Simple, copy KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX off the CD to a directory called KNOPPIX on the hard drive. Then just dd KNOPPIX/boot.img onto a floppy and boot from there.
Posted by cbagger01 on Nov. 28 2003,19:42
Make sure that your C: drive directory is C:\KNOPPIXin ALL-UPPERCASE letters. Linux is case sensitive |