iB::Topic::HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy

	Damn Small Linux :: Damn Small Linux Board The DSL Forums

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Damn Small Linux Board » Damn Small Linux » Other Help Topics » HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy

		Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
		Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic

Pages: (11) </ ... 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Topic: HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy, HD install "floppy" only

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

redsoxfan

Group: Members
Posts: 0
Joined: June 2004

Posted: June 24 2004,14:53

OK - I was patient enough and now am booting off of the HD.

But... doing the xsetup.sh, I choose frame buffering, becasue VESA will never start and the laptop gets locked up (no response from numlock keypresses to the numlock light).

When I "startx" I get : modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X Server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

AwPhuch

Group: Members
Posts: 1404
Joined: April 2004

Posted: June 24 2004,14:59

Quote (redsoxfan @ June 23 2004,22:02)

D'oh!!!!

I re-started the whole procedure from scratch. NOW the darn thing won't run cfdisk - it says there is a "fatal error" and "press any key to exit cfdisk"

What did I do? I re-fdisk'd the hard drive (from DOS) for the 1st partition, copied the files from a IDE attached CDROM, then rebooted with the DSL boot disk.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Possible bad copy of the image to /dev/hda1
my suggestion would be to do a complete (secure wipe(I have a premade image at dban wipdisk) of your hd (mbr and all) since you have access to a cdrom drive.

Its always good to completely wipe (not format) a drive back to factory default b4 installing an os anyway

Brian
AwPhuch

--------------
http://www.frappr.com/dsl <-- Where do you use DSL?
http://www.smoothwall.org <-- Ultimate firewall for the world!
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php/userID:6107 <--My BOINC stats!
./S99LinuxRevolution start

AwPhuch

Group: Members
Posts: 1404
Joined: April 2004

Posted: June 24 2004,15:47

Quote (Guest @ June 24 2004,00:34)

I just wanted to say that i have run this on an old panasonic CF-35 laptop and have been able to get this running but my screen comes up all green. Any idea's on how to fix the res.?

I am running a 275mhz with 32mb of ram on a panasonic cf35 laptop.

That has to do with the display or possibly X11 settings...there is a thread just for that...

Sorry I cant help more...good luck

Brian
AwPhuch

--------------
http://www.frappr.com/dsl <-- Where do you use DSL?
http://www.smoothwall.org <-- Ultimate firewall for the world!
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php/userID:6107 <--My BOINC stats!
./S99LinuxRevolution start

redsoxfan

Group: Members
Posts: 0
Joined: June 2004

Posted: June 25 2004,00:42

Any ideas on my previous post? I have tried this with a Thinkpad 365X also and get the exact same results.

OK - I was patient enough and now am booting off of the HD.

But... doing the xsetup.sh, I choose frame buffering, becasue VESA will never start and the laptop gets locked up (no response from numlock keypresses to the numlock light).

When I "startx" I get : modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X Server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining:(

cbagger01

Group: Members
Posts: 4264
Joined: Oct. 2003

Posted: June 25 2004,17:26

Try adding "vga=789" to your boot command line in lilo.

Search the forums for LILO to get more details.

53 replies since April 14 2004,18:37

< Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (11) </ ... 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 >/

Damn Small Linux Board » Damn Small Linux » Other Help Topics » HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy