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Posted: Nov. 22 2007,00:20

If you partitioned again with cfdisk, make sure you reboot first -- as cfdisk recommends when you exit.

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Posted: Nov. 22 2007,22:15

Well, I finally got it installed. As it turned out, for some reason it was trying to use hda1 as a swap partition. Once I booted up with the cheat code noswap, it worked fine, except for one little thing: I can't modify the menu.lst for Grub. It says it's on a read-only file system. I don't know how that could be, because I didn't set it as read-only, and I can't imagine any reason why that would be the default. But I don't know how to change it, so that would be the thing to figure out.

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Posted: Nov. 23 2007,00:19

Ah i see your problem -- DSL automatically uses any swap it can detect, so you'd have to do that noswap boot or use the command swapoff.

With root privileges, edit /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst if you are booting with frugal.