Herix
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Joined: May 2004 |
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Posted: May 03 2004,20:12 |
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Hello you all !
Just to set the picture, let's say I'm poor and new to Linux. Those are good reasons to make me want to run DSL.
So far I didn't manage to get it to run, but I'm not to give up so easily. I take it as a personnal challenge to my IT degree and height years high-tech career ;-)
The technical picture now : I have one computer, hand-made out of various parts, based on an 1995 Compaq desktop. Processor is a P90, there is 64 Mo ram, 2 HD (resp. 2 Go and 6 Go), a CD-Rom reader (definitively not bootable), a floppy drive and a NIC card with permanet DSL internet connection. That thing is up and running, and runs Windows NT 4 Workstation pretty well. I definitely decided to keep WNT4.
I got tomrtbt, this quite excellent tools enable to boot and run the simpliest Linux from just one diskette. I used it to partition (fdisk) and format (mke2fs) my secondary HD, which is now visible under Linux as hdb1. I can mount floppy, cd-rom and Windows partitions whenever I need it. I downloaded the DSL iso image, and eventually got it burned (on a Macintosh, don't ask me why). The CD holds only one big .iso file, wich, as I understand through my reading of the numerous posts, won't help me much.
I also downloaded Winimageso as to be able to read the content of the .iso file, and also bootpartwith the intent to enable Win+Linux double boot. This bootpart tool may well not be necessary, as far as I understant what Lilo is supposed to do.
I browsed through numerous forums and how-to and made many attempts, but none succeded. I can't yet run DSL at all, not even talking yet about double-boot.
But I have a strong inclination to think that it /is/ possible. Moreover, I have the fallacious intuition that it shoudln't be too painful, provided you use the right tool at the right moment.
I am just about to make a further attempt, I'll keep you updated with the results.
Do I need to mention that any suggestion is warmly welcome ?
As for now, I intent to proceed like that :
1) remove all stubs from previous attempts, keeping only the much valuable tomsrtbt floppy and the big .iso file on cd-rom, and of course keeping my clean ext3 partition known as hdb1.
2) read the cd-rom with Winimage, so as to make a C:\Knoppix folder and copy the boot.img somewhere, both in the NTSF partion.
3) boot from tomsrtbt floppy , and dd the boot.img file onto a blank, dos-formated floppy
--------------- so far, I can't be wrong, can I ? ------
4) boot from the boot.img copy and see what happens.
(note that this is my third reboot, and I'm only at step 4, not bad for a system adveertized as easy-does-it ;-) or perhaps it's me ? ...)
5) If step 4 does not succeed in loading and running DSL, fumble through the lilo.conf so as to point the loader toward things where they really are. The mess begins here, since I quite don't know what's supposed to be the boot directory and the root directory, and where the hell I will manage to find some boot.b and the like.
----if anybody holds a streamlined lilo.conf I could use in those circonstences, //please// post here, thanx.
6) if one of step 4 or 5 succeeds, perform a dsl-hdinstall the way it is supposed to be done.
7)go to bed whatever
8) if no success from above steps, pursue my quest of a linux distrib suitable for my paleodesktop.
be well and see you later
Herix
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