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gfellmayer Offline

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Posted: Jan. 01 2006,17:37

Happy New Year to all and greetings from Maple, Canada

I have an old notebook (150Mhz and 48 MB RAM). Partition Magic was able to create a 900 MB partition and a 400 MB swap for Linux.

I have loaded DSL from a CD and use the Tools-install to HD menu but I am stuck at the "Enter the target partition" question. How do I find out which "hda" the Linux partition is. I don't want to loose my winME for the time being.

Also after installing DSL on the HD does it give me to option for GRUB so I can select which system I would like to boot..

Thanks...

david
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Posted: Jan. 01 2006,20:38

Please take this with many grains of salt, as I am not an expert. But, with that disclaimer out of the way:

Boot from the liveCD.

Go into the terminal.

Type fdisk -l /dev/hda (that's dash lowercase L).

This should print out your partition table with the filesystem type in the rightmost column. From this information you should be able to deduce which partition is the one you want. For example, when I run that command on my desktop system I get:

Code Sample

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1922 15438433+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 1923 9728 62701695 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1923 3779 14916321 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 3780 9728 47785311 83 Linux

In this example you can see that /dev/hda6 looks promising.

Enjoy and happy new year!

David Mintz
http://davidmintz.org/

david
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Posted: Jan. 01 2006,20:50

PS about the GRUB, I forgot to add: I don't know. Maybe Mr. Google can help you with that.

muskrat

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Posted: Jan. 04 2006,00:45

I'm new to DSL but not Grub.

When you install grub to the MBR, DSL script ask if you have windows persent on that drive and answer yes.

I just did an HD install, Grub didn't put windows into boot but it did configure it. Meaning, on my frist HD boot Grub didn't show windows. Not to worry, after booting into DSL.

Edit the file /boot/grub/menu.1st

At the very bottom of the file you'll see a part simaler to this
#title Windoze
#root ****
#makeactive ****
#chainloader ****
#boot ****

The *** is the data for your system each system will be slightly different all you do is remove the # on all lines from title to boot, and then reboot and you should be able to see and select windows from grub.

You can make other changes it that file, I like to set the timeout high, it's set at 15 secconds. I usually set it to 30 or 60 seconds.

Also you can change the default selected distro to boot. Ether DSL or Windows.

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