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

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linnnn
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Posted: May 14 2004,05:45

Thanks,AwPhuch.
If it's right,maybe my problem comes from bootusb.img.
my procedure is :
1.Use ISOBUSTER to extract the damnsmall-0.6.3.iso,and get index.html and KNOPPIX folder with three files---boot.cat,boot.img and KNOPPIX(47,049KB).
2.Move index.html and the KNOPPIX folder to my usb device.
3.Create a DSL boot floppy by using RAWWRITEWIN and bootusb.img.
4.Boot with the boot floppy.
Then i got:
Can't find KNOPPIX filesystem,sorry.
Dropping you to a (very limited) shell.
Press reset button to quit.
So,I think the problem is taht the bootusb.img can't detect my hardware.

AwPhuch

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Posted: May 14 2004,18:29

ummm....no clue on the bootusb stuff

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

Sorry I was actually using true floppys, not a USB pen...sorry
Hell that laptop doesnt even have usb

Brian
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linnnn
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Posted: May 17 2004,11:28

Thank you,AwPhuch,and sorry to ask the question here.But since I can't boot it from my usb device,I will try the method to boot it from a floppy or from a CD .

AwPhuch

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Posted: May 17 2004,15:45

No problem, I wrote up this HOWTO for ppl with very old hardware.

The laptop I installed to by this method was a 75Mhz (90Mhz if on Turbo!!) with 16Megs ram and 504Mb HD, no CDROM, no USB. So I had to figure out a way to get the DSL image over to the hd so it would boot and then figure out how to get it to do a HD-install so it would run faster (uncompressing on the fly with only 16Megs RAM is horrible!)

I have tried this method 3 times with releases 6.2, 6.3 and 7.0 and the walkthru I have provide works every time...

Good luck

Brian
AwPhuch

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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