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Posted: Aug. 23 2006,06:10

Hi, Everyone,

I'm installing DSL on my old Acernote laptop P120 16MB RAM 1GB HDD (floppy only). You can see my other post in the Laptops forum.

Anyway, I'm trying to do a dsl-hdinstall to the hda2 partition and have run into problems. Here is what I see printed on screen before being dropped back to the command line:
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Continue (y/..)? y
Creating filesystem ext2 on /dev/hda2...
/usr/sbin/dsl-hdinstall: line 88: /tmp/hdinst.tmp.956: No such file or directory
An error occurred while creating the filesystem.
Some messages from mkfs:
tail: /tmp/hdinst.tmp.956: No such file or directory
tail: no files
bash-2.05b#
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Not pretty, is it?

I have 3 partitions on my 1GB disk:

hda1: holds Win98, about 700MB
hda2: formatted for linux 83, about 235MB
hda3: formatted for linux 83, about 64MB (currently holding current.iso)

The system recognizes hda3 as the cdrom and can read it just fine. Any ideas?

Dellengwyn

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Posted: Aug. 23 2006,06:20

One more detail....

The install script sets the TMP variable as "/tmp/hdinst.tmp.$$", but the /tmp/ directory appears to be a symbolic link to /ramdisk/tmp. The problem is that, in /ramdisk/, there is no /tmp/. I am operating off the boot floppy created during the frugal_lite.sh install script.

Ciao,
Dellengwyn

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Posted: Aug. 23 2006,06:59

Well, I've gotten further simply by creating the /ramdisk/tmp directory myself and running the dsl-hdinstall script. Because the directory is now there, the script can create the file it wants.

What I don't understand is why the boot floppy wasn't able to create the /ramdisk/tmp directory in the first place....

Anyway, I'll keep you informed of the progress.

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Posted: Aug. 23 2006,08:38

Progress is halting, but continuing...

The next stumbling block was the grub/lilo script, which insisted on the target partition being mounted at /mnt/hd. I manually mounted the partion and reran the script, and it seemed to work. Now, I get a grub menu prior to boot, and can choose DSL with various graphics options preferable to laptops. I chose 800x600 and went through the various initial questions about my keyboard, mouse, etc. until I was eventually kicked back to the command line with these messages:

Loading /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.kmap.gz
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

root@tty1[root]#

It's progress.... but any advice would be welcome, and I hope this post ends up being useful for anyone else wrangling with the scripts.

Ciao,
Dellengwyn

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Posted: Aug. 23 2006,10:11

Hi, All,

I want to consolidate this thread with another one. From here, please follow my progress at this posting subject:

DSL newbie install on P166 fails

The other poster (DiSmaL) has been having similar problems, and I think our situations are similar. View my comments and updates on the other thread.

Thanks,
Dellengwyn

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