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Posted: Nov. 09 2006,02:44 QUOTE
Howdy,

I have figured out how to do the "Loadlin Install" (shown here: http://tinyurl.com/klv9a )

I could put the line:
cd isolinux
loadlin @options.txt

In the autoexec.bat so it boots the "live CD on the hard drive" every time. Groovy, it's a laptop and I don't have a CD drive for it.

But how can I save my settings so they automatically load each time? Is there anyway to convert the "live CD on the hard drive" into an installation?

Thanks,
Craig
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Posted: Nov. 09 2006,10:33 QUOTE
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Is there anyway to convert the "live CD on the hard drive" into an installation?

Yes, you have to create a native linux partition and a swap partition. A full hard disk installation takes 120-130 MB (plus space for your data and any myDSL packages) and you need maybe 32-64 MB swap. When that is done you can run a installation script.
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Posted: Nov. 09 2006,13:07 QUOTE
Could you tell me how to do that?
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Posted: Nov. 09 2006,13:56 QUOTE
I guess that your whole disk is used by windows or dos and you somehow have to shrink that partition. You have at least two options:

1. Repartion the disk by a dos boot disk (or similar). This will wipe all your data on the disk, i.e. you have to reinstall windows/dos and DSL.

2. Use some kind of repartitioning software that installs and runs under your current windows/dos OS. I have used the commercial Partition Magic for this but as this comes on a CD that's not an option. You also have parted (free, http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml) which runs under linux - I've never used it and don't know if you can use it under DSL. You also have http://partitionlogic.org.uk/index.html (free) which you may try (never used this either).

There are other people here that knows more about this than I do, so if you have patience you can wait and see if anybody else answers.
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Posted: Nov. 09 2006,17:27 QUOTE
Rock on, I know how to do partitioning within Windows :)

So I would make 3 partitions:

1 for DSL cd content (50 MB)
2 for swap file (100 MB)
3 for installation (rest of drive)

These would be FAT32 partitions, is that OK?

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Craig
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