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john wayne Offline

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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,13:20

hopefully someone can help with this question , I have been trying for 3 weeks to install to hard drive.I can run it from the live CD but it will not install to hard drive .I think i need to partition the disk but have been unable to do this as there is no operating system on the hard drive.I obviously have looked on the net with no luck. I can`t believe i have to re-install windows so that i can install dsl.

help from anyone would be appreciated

john wayne

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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,14:12

Hello,
Tools to partition and format drives are available in DSL.
Try following the steps given in "FrugalHowto.pdf":
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....wto.pdf

Good Luck.

jimihieu

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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,15:06

1) boot up with DSL LiveCD
2) use"cfdisk" or "fdisk /dev/hda" to partition your hard drive (assume u have only one hard drive)
3) then open a shell and issue as root:
#sudo frugal_install.sh
answers a series of questions the script ask u to!
4) reboot and cross ur finger

roberts

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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,15:14

Quote (jimihieu @ Nov. 04 2006,07:06)

It is best to reboot after step 2. This will insure that the new partitions will be seen.

Seems many users prefer frugal_grub.sh. It is usually easier to change boot options from grub than lilo which frugal_install.sh provides. In fact, I am renaming frugal_install.sh to frugal_lilo.sh to make this more obvious which boot loader will be installed.

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