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JohnTorex

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Posted: July 24 2006,10:35

just to clarify.

i have used gparted to create the only partition on the hard drive. reported as /dev/sda1 ext3 2GB in size.

have rebooted back into gparted and it is still there.

rebooted using a DSL boot floppy and DSL LIVECD. have tried the following options :
1) straight reboot, at the BOOT prompt just hit enter
2) at the BOOT prompt just hit F2, then typed in dsl sata then hit enter

each of these boots to the penguin desktop with the page opened. from here on both options, have clicked on ATerminal and tried
cfdisk /dev/sda1 - - -> FATAL ERROR Cannot open disk drive
cfdisk /dev/sda - - -> FATAL ERROR Cannot open disk drive
fdisk /dev/sda1 - - -> disk not found
fdisk /dev/sda - - -> disk not found

all i want to do is a vanilla install of dsl to the hard drive.

it is obvious that i am doing something wrong but i don't know what. everything to the letter of what i have done, i have described above.

can anyone help. many thanks

jb

when i get a working procedure i will submit a complete process for the forum if they feel it will be useful.

kerry

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Posted: July 24 2006,10:45

cfdisk and fdisk is used to set up the partions(ext2 or ext3) needed for install, if you've done it with gparted you can move on to the install, so just right click> apps> tools> hdd install. what's the spec's on your machine? if you have low memory(ram) it would help if you made a swap as well.

JohnTorex

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Posted: July 24 2006,11:00

kerry
my apologies if i'm not following you here.

this is what i have tried...

right-click > Apps > Tools > Install to Hard Drive

a window opens saying DSL hard drive installation.
Enter the target partition. (EXAMPLE: hda2):
so i enter
sda1
Do you wish to install with multi-user logins (y/...)?
my answer : n
The system will boot directly in X as user dsl.
Use journalized ext3 filesystem (not recommended on slower systems) (y/n)?
my answer : n
Last chance to exist before destroying any data on /dev/sda1!! Continue (y/...)?
my answer : y
Creating filesystem ext2 on /dev/sda1
then the window closes after about 1 second ?

my question. either this is very fast or it didn't doing anything. if it's the latter which i think it is, ie. nothing happened. why ? what have i done wrong.

do i have to mount the device or anything straight after booting up the system and before doing the hard drive install.

thanks in advance

jb

kerry

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Posted: July 24 2006,11:25

You created a ext3 but selected no to use it, it might be having problems formating it to a ext2. i seen were this could be a problem because the computer boots it up and see's it as the ext3 it is but than you change it so it can't tell what it is after you change it.

i suggest if you make ext3 to use ext3 if your format as ext2 use ext2, this is why you set it up ahead of time so during the install it don't have to. you basicly have it creating a ext2 file system on a ext3 file system.

JohnTorex

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Posted: July 24 2006,13:55

hi kerry

firstly, many thanks for your help so far. i have deleted the partition and created a new partition which is ext2 then did the exact same steps but again the window just closes.

the way it acts it is like it cannot detect the partition as a linux partition.

is there something i should be doing in gparted specifically.

i started up with gparted LIVECD, on boot, selected the defaults ie. cd in drive. switch on. at the boot: prompt, hit enter.
at language select US English - hit OK
at the Keymap select qwerty/uk.map - hit OK
at the X-server select Xorg - hit OK
at video driver select vesa - hit OK
at screen depth select 24 - hit OK
at screen res select 1024/768 - hit OK
the GParted GUI starts up.
it displays unallocated 74.53 GB
click New
in the create new Partition select
Free Space Preceding (MiB) 0
New Size (MiB) 2048
Free Space Following (MiB) 74269
Create as Primary Partition
Filesystem ext2
click Add then click Apply

i then exited Gparted and started the DSL LIVECD.
at the desktop tried the same right click install to hard drive and the window just closes.

cleared all partitions, select new

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