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

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Lars

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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,17:35

I was trying to follow these tips and it was working fine until it just hang itself in a blue screen hell during what might have been the installation process. I got past the penguin feature and all. I wonder why it never asked me where to install, but then again it might just install default on the drive where I placed the Knoppix folder, which would be fine.
As I said it hang though. I noticed something that might have been an error message during the penguin feature saying: can't find /ramdisk in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab
What does that mean??

ssalman

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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,18:34

Lars, it sounds like you're still in the booting process, and it is not successfully booting yet!

The steps you have followed should get you to boot DSL, installation will be after you get a working DSL OS.

could you give more information about when it is stoping and what messages do you get.

Lars

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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,19:32

Thanks God. There's someone here. Im getting quite far now. At the moment I can get to a point where it asks me where to install eg. hda2. I don't now what the linux term would be for my D: drive. I can see it says my image is on hda5, which in theory would be where I wan't to install as well, but it also says it's going to format to ext2 and thereby delete the installation files.

So where am I to put the installation files if not on the drive I wish to install to?
And how can I find out what is the name, in linux terms, of the drive I want to install to?
Is it something with cfdisk in that case how do I run that program?

Lars

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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,20:09

Oh, and I guess if I want to be able to dual boot win98 and DSL, I have to do it the Grub way?

ssalman

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Posted: Mar. 28 2006,21:04

Well, I'll try to answer your question to the best of my knowledge

Linux names the hard drives differently, hda5 is actually hd + a + 5, hd is Hard Disk (cleverly enough!), a is your first physical hard drive, if you have two physical hard drives you'll have a and b. 5 is the partition number, and it could be different based on if it is logical or actual partition... long story short, you need to put your Knoppix folder on a different drive and then reboot, and then you'll be able to install on hda5. The trick is that it needs to be on a partition with a supported file system: fat, ext2, etc. if you are using NTFS, I'm not sure if it will work, but if you are using FAT, you could just copy the Knoppix folder to the top directory on your C: drive, and then delete/rename the one on the D: drive, and then reboot. if you are able to boot using this method, you can format and install DSL on hda5 with no worries. your wi98 is probably on hda1.

And you are right, to double boot with Windows you need to install Grub or some other boot manager, there are some threads in this forum about Grub if you run into problems.

I hope that helps. Post back if you still have problems.

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