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Posted: Nov. 03 2006,22:53 QUOTE
I guess I'm missing something.
Am trying a frugal installation to my second hard-drive. It has nothing on it. Tried with it formatted through Win2k as NTFS and also Fat32. With DSL 3.0.1 the cfdisk and fdisk show the partition but when I try to run frugal installation I get "Sorry system has not detected a linux partition" error after rebooting.
My system is PII 233mhz.
Everything else works perfectly I even have some extensions downloaded.
DSL is a delight to work.
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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,00:27 QUOTE
Frugal Installs to a Linux partition.
Poormans installs to Windows type partition.
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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,00:30 QUOTE
I formatted the drive as linux ie., 83 and 82.
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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,15:10 QUOTE
Quote (JohnJS @ Nov. 03 2006,19:30)
I formatted the drive as linux ie., 83 and 82.

what is your fdisk -l output?
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Posted: Nov. 04 2006,17:19 QUOTE
Didn't know about mkswap /dev/hdb1.
Now disk hdb2 formatted and files copied from LIVECD.
Installation progressed beyond "do you have windows on /dev/hda" answered "yes" =Grub installed.
On re-booting still starts up with Windows. No sign of Grub.
Tried frugal installation (Grub) again but with the same result, starts up in Windows (2k).
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