Installing on a different system

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Installing on a different system
started by: Kranky_Penguin

Posted by Kranky_Penguin on July 28 2004,03:07

I'm intending to run DSL on a 340 Mb Microdrive in a system that has no floppy, no CD, no NIC, though it does have 4 USB ports.

I think the easiest way to install to this would be to do an install on a different machine that has all that stuff. So, I have installed it (using dsl-hdinstall.sh) to the Microdrive using a USB adapter.

The only thing is that in the run machine the Microdrive will be identified as /dev/hdc whereas in my USB adapter, it's recognized as /dev/sda. I can't boot from my USB adapter, but I can chroot to it after booting up with the CD.

So are the only files needed to be changed /etc/lilo.conf & /etc/fstab? Or is there more than that?

Thanks.

Amy

Posted by clivesay on July 28 2004,13:08

Amy -

cbagger01 started to explain how to do this very thing in this post ---> < click here >

It was a little off topic there so maybe you can get this process documented here. I don't quite understand the whole process yet but will be looking to try it within the next week.

Good Luck!

Chris