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Topic: HD-Install without FDD or CD-ROM Drives?, will mounting iso work?how about PXE?

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ssalman

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Posted: Mar. 16 2006,18:42

Found the problem... my knoppix directory was on a reiserfs partition, and it looks like DSL do not support reading the knoppix image file from reiserfs partition. Grub didn't have problem booting the kernel from it though.

I created an ext2 partition and it worked great, thanks for all your help. now I have DSL on my diskless laptop without the need for USB install.

octet70
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Posted: Mar. 17 2006,18:40

hy had the same problem whith an hold toshiba laptop.
my solution was to put his HD on an other computer for instal DSL from the cdrom.
before rebooting I had switched an other time the HD.

Now all is OK !!

sory for my english

Salut

jimihieu

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,17:32

Quote (ssalman @ Mar. 13 2006,13:58)

I have an older ultra slim laptop, with no CD or FD. I was able to install Ubuntu and SuSE on it through PXE. Now I want to test DSL on it and see how fast it can go.

The porblem is that I couldn't find a how-to install directly from the iso file. I tried to mount the iso file but all I can see is a Knoppix image, and no install scripts. It looks like it is not hard to setup an PXE install as DSL already uses syslinux to boot, but I was wondering if there is a simpler way through mounting the iso?

Thanks.

hi
yeah i have same problem too and would like to know how to "burn" iso image onto a partition then from that partition can boot DSL as liveCD does then can do all other stuffs later on.
please tell me how as im a poor man method.
thanxx

ssalman

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Posted: Mar. 21 2006,21:08

Well, here is how I did it:

- created an ext2 partition, and mounted it
- downloaded the DSL iso file to the new partition
- used "mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path_to_iso/DSL_iso_file.iso /mnt/Your_Dir"
- copied the /boot and /KNOPPIX folders to the new partition root
- edited my grub menu.lst file to add:
title DSL
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda5
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
-booted and selected "DSL" from the grub menu.

Don't forget to substitute your correct partion number instead of (hd0,4) and hda5.

post back if you have more questions... good luck.

Lars

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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,13:03

Sorry. I'm a bit of a newbie. But I think this thread might be useful to me.
My problem is that I have an old Olivetti laptop with win98 installed. That is far to heavy for the laptop to handle so I would love to try out DSL.
The problem is the installation as I can only boot from floppy. However i cannot hotswap to the CD-rom drive (which goes into the same slot) - originally you would have a ceartain cable from the parallel port to the floppy which would allow you to have both connected at the same time. I do not have that cable anymore.
I can however, because of my windows installation, get into dos with a working cd-rom drive, but it seems I cannot run anything from my bootable DSL-CD.
I thought to this boot fra the harddrive would be a solution for me. My question would be, how do I mount a bootable image on my harddrive? I guess I would have to format a partition in something like ext2 beforhand. But exactly do I copy to the harddrive to either run it from dos (oh i guess I couldn't if it's ext2). And will of course have to remember a swap partition.
Oh please help. Remember I'm a newbie to linuxinstallations, I'm not really sharp.
Maybe, i could install i via some kind of network to. But that sound even more complicated. I would have to connect to my desktop via parallel or serial or something??
It's an Olivetti P100e, 100 Mhz, 16 Mb Ram, 1 Gb harddisk. What a monster machine, eh?

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