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Topic: image for a cf card, anyone?

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xxooss

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Posted: April 28 2006,20:11

well now it gets interesting...LOL

I am in dsl on my new system that i booted from a usb pen drive. all is working perfect. I do a CFDISK and create a 50mb partition on the cf card and then create a logical for the rest of it. OH and the wierd part is I have to do this from a terminal using the sudo command since when i right click-apps-tools-etc... it says it cant open the drives and so I am assuming I need to be root.

Anyway i create the partitions and tell it to do a install from the terminal since ii have to use sudo. I do a sudo dsl-hdinstall. It goes through the motions and after it completes i try and boot, says damaged or no boot partition. I do a cfdisk again and the card reads as a 1gb fat32 windows partition.

anyway can someone please post a link to where I might download an image like the one they sell on the cfcards? thanks

doobit

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Posted: April 28 2006,20:37

Try it the way I did it.
Boot from a CD or pen drive - it doesn't matter. I've used either one.

Open a terminal and type sudo su
cfdisk /dev/hdxx (whatever the CF card name is on your system)
delete all active partitions and write
create a single linux (type 83 ) partition and set the boot flag to boot.
write the partition table again
Quit
Now, just for the heck of it, format the CF disk
Open a terminal
type sudo su
mke2fs /dev/hdxx (whatever your CF disk is)
you should see verbage telling you how the sectors and stuff are being written.
exit
Now do the frugal grub hard drive install from the dsl menu. It will ask if you want to format the drive. Say no.
Answer yes to new install
tell it to install from your pendrive
As long as you are not using toram when you boot from the pendrive, it should install OK.
It will tell you when it's finished and you can exit. Don't abort until then.

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xxooss

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Posted: April 28 2006,21:22

Well i did exactly as you detailed but there was a few more messages while doing the install, the one that concerns me is " you will need to reboot to finish the HD install"

I did as it asked and rebooted and booted dsl back up from the pen drive. Just for kicks I went in and checked the cf card with mke2fs and it showed all the info. I shutdown, and started back up sans the usb pen and it gave me the same message, dammaged boot partition

Oh and I was NOT telling cfdisk to "write" OMG N00b

I figured this out as I was going to try and read the cfcard in my windows box, I booted to the live cd and did cfdisk and just deleted the first partition without even thinking, it was my 40gb main drive! i felt sick but since I didn't hit "write" I was saved by the grace of the noob god

Anyway I am still stuck but feel we are getting closer. Any other ideas?

thanks

doobit

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Posted: April 28 2006,21:40

OK, you didn't mention before that you had a hard drive. If you want to boot from the IDE CF drive,then you need to set it as master (little jumper), and set your BIOS to boot from that CF hard drive first (probably hdd1)

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xxooss

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Posted: April 28 2006,21:53

Quote (doobit @ April 28 2006,17:40)

well i didnt mention it because it was my other system so it didnt matter.

Anyhow i got it to work! All I did was choose lilo instead of grub and it worked!
I have no idea so don't ask LOL

Well now it on to saving my settings :P

thanks for the help, couldn't have done it without you

Peace

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