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Posted: May 19 2006,14:13 QUOTE
Okay here are my steps.

CF CARD 1GB using IDE converter.

step 1 - inserted card - formatted using fdisk and also fdisk mbr.

step 2 reboot and run DSL CD

step 3 go to root run cf disk.

step 4 setup new partitions 2 each to cover 1 GB

step 5 write tables and make linux boot partition

step 6 reboot

step 7 mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 to do linux format

step 8 mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda2 to do linux format on Hda2.

step 9 reboot

Frugal Install - GRUB Load.

reboot to the CF - gets 1.5 Grub loader error.

any suggestions ?
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Posted: May 19 2006,16:12 QUOTE
I am not at my DSL CF computer but I thought I remember an option for using lilo
when installing to a CF card.  Anyway that is what i did and it works fine even though
I would have preferred using grub.
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Posted: May 19 2006,16:15 QUOTE
Okay if i use LILO what steps do i to select then to get it onto the CF card....

thanks, not familiar with LILO.
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Posted: May 19 2006,16:33 QUOTE
Grub works fine, I've done it many times. When you do the install do you pick u for upgrade or i for install? I suggest you do i and let it reformat the partition before the install because it writes a new boot/grub/menu.lst file when it does that. The upgrade choice does not write the menu.lst file because it assumes you already have one. That will give you a grub loader error.

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Posted: June 07 2006,10:42 QUOTE
Quote (IAN442 @ May 19 2006,12:15)
Okay if i use LILO what steps do i to select then to get it onto the CF card....

thanks, not familiar with LILO.

hi,
do u think that CF converter IDE is necessary? i have problem with USB cf Reader.
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