Can't run anything

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Can't run anything
started by: mjmoran

Posted by mjmoran on Feb. 13 2004,09:10

I am having a problem with my HD install of DSL. When I am running off cd the disto runns flawlessly, however after I installed it onto my harddrive and booted, I can't load XWindows or even run apt. Im getting the same error that the program can't load a shared library. Ive installed it again, to make sure that its not some funny error. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael Moran

Posted by roberts on Feb. 13 2004,18:56

How big is your root partition? It may be that you did not get everything copied over.

Posted by Mike Moran on Feb. 13 2004,19:07

Well, I only have a 120 meg disk, but its suposed to fit in under 50 megs i thought, plus it says my drive is only 60 percent used. Its an old laptop hd I have installed in a P2 300mHz because its harddrive died, and I want something to get it working. Anyone have any ideas?

-Michael Moran

Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 14 2004,03:55

A 120Meg disk is probably too small for you to do a stanard install.

Search these forums for details on an alternative way to use DSL:

Copy the CDROM contents (/KNOPPIX directory) to a newly created /KNOPPIX directory on your nearly empty hard disk partition (you need at least 49MB free disk space on your hard disk).

Then follow the instructions in the FAQ on how to create a boot floppy.

Take the CD out of your computer and reboot with the boot floppy. It will find the /KNOPPIX stuff on your hard drive and use it for the installation.

The "fake CDROM" that is located on your hard disk will give you better speed performance than using the read LiveCD.

Unfortunately, you will still be using a read-only compressed filesystem so your flexibility will be more limited that a normal hd-installed system.

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 16 2004,14:42

The compresed kernel image is 49MB
The un-compresed filesystem is about 190 MB
So put clean floppy in,boot DSL and

Code Sample

$sudo su
#mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
#cp /cdrom/knoppix/knoppix /mnt/hda1/knoppix/knoppix
#dd if=/cdrom/knoppix/boot.img of=/dev/fd0

An now simple pop-in the floppy everytime you want to use DSL...but it it like the live-cd so no new apps or documents

You need to modify your filetool.sh...I gonna look at it now and I will tell you how it happend