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Posted: Jan. 25 2004,19:47 QUOTE

ok im not neccissarilly totally new to linux, ive worked in it with telnet/ssh, so i know mild basics, but ive only used command line, and dsl is kind of different. So i was wondering about a couple things...
1. i went into the bash shell, and found the HD_install_HOWTO.txt so i thought i would try it out because i really like DSL, but when i tried to open it from the shell it either sad bad command or i didnt have permission. I tryed i believe it was Zile (the emacs style editor) and i couldnt quite figure out how to open a file >.<; so i thought i would come ask here..since everyone seems to be so nice:D
and also one more question..
2. I tried to use glinks hacked but apparently my computer isnt set up for use with the net because its old and i havent used it in a long time (im using my new one at the moment) and instead of messing around in windows 95 getting it set up (bleh..) i was wondering if there was a quick way to set it up in DSL?

well..sorry for making this so long, and thanx for your time :D
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Posted: Jan. 25 2004,21:40 QUOTE

1. when you open the terminal window, type: sudo su

this will give you superuser status to run the dsl-hdinstall script.

2. are you trying to connect via dial-up or broadband?

Cappy
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Posted: Jan. 25 2004,23:12 QUOTE

k cool ty, im using broadband (dsl), the computer i wanna use it on is so hold and i messed it up quite horribly, thats y i wanted to do it  under DSL
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Posted: Jan. 26 2004,03:51 QUOTE

sounds like you should do a full format of the hard drive on your old computer and then install DSL.

You need to use cfdisk to delete the old partitions on the hard drive and create 2 new ones

first one should be a swap partition that is about twice the size of your RAM. (i.e. a 64 mb machine needs a 128mb swap)

you create the partition and set it to type 83 which is a swap partition.

then create another partition with the remainder of the hard drive as type Linux (usually type 82) and make it bootable.

Then you should have 2 partitions listed in cfdisk:

hda1
hda2

When you run dsl-hdinstall, you install into /dev/hda2 and follow the prompts.

It will also run lilo-config and you should put lilo in the MBR (master boot record)

after the install, you will be prompted to reboot the system, remove the cd-rom and you should be able to boot from the hard drive.

Most, but not all network cards are recognized by DSL, but I am not sure if there are other configuration settings you need to perform for dsl broadband.

good luck!

Cappy.
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