Juanito
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Posted: Feb. 05 2007,05:52 |
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I managed to make this work with DSL 3.2 a few weeks ago so I thought I'd complete the post just to let others know it is possible.
Hardware: HP Kayak XU, 267Mhz Pentium II, 512MB RAM, 9GB+36GB scsi hd, floppy, ide cd (no longer bootable), scsi cd, scsi dvd, Matrox Millenium II agp graphics, Soundblaster 128 pci, HP built-in ethernet.
1. Since the machine will no longer boot from cd, I managed to boot from a floppy and use the "fromusb" option to continue the boot from a usb stick (sda1 - this is important, see step 5).
2. W2K boots from the 9GB hd, so I used ntfsprogs to shrink the single ntfs partition on the 36GB hd to 25GB - see http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=16815
3. I created 1GB ext2 swap, 2GB ext2 bootable and 8GB ext2 partitions in the space freed up on the 36GB hd which became sdc2, sdc3 & sdc4
4. Using a modified frugal_lilo script - see http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=17087 - I created a frugal lilo boot file on sdc3
5. At this point sda1=usb stick, sdb1=W2K boot drive, sdc1=ntfs partition, sdc2=linux swap, sdc3=lilo boot partition, sdc4=linux partition but to boot from the lilo boot partition, the usb stick will be removed, so sdc3 becomes sdb3 on reboot - so I changed fromhd=/dev/sdc3 to sdb3 in lilo.conf
6. Finally, I changed the BIOS setting for which hd to boot from to the 36GB hd and it worked.
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