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Topic: Old laptop's install, how to install dsl on my old laptop?

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peter rus

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Posted: Feb. 13 2006,18:53

i can use cfdisk from another distro's cd (slackware) then i can create some partitions, i have 2156mb of disk space. how should i divide this? (do i need a swap partition?)

then i can boot dsl base system (i managed to do that)

a boot floppy? what? and how?

cbagger01

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Posted: Feb. 13 2006,19:13

You need at least 50MB for your temporary FAT or EXT2 partition to store the \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file.

You also should set up 64MB or maybe even 128MB for a linux swap partition.

The rest can be used for a full HD installation, if desired.

peter rus

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Posted: Feb. 13 2006,19:35

okay, i made the partitions, now i will try to copy the file

peter rus

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Posted: Feb. 14 2006,19:53

strange, i can't acces my DSL cd in boot. i have used a win98 rescuedisc to boot dos and load the cd-rom drivers. now when i want to acces the E: drive (c: is 50 mb of fat to place the knoppix filem d: is a virtual drive to load dos) and i give the dir command i get a error which says dos cant read the disc, so i tried if my cd-rom drive could read a ubuntu cd. and this was possible. so what to do now?