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Topic: Is Frugal install to sdc possible?, Floppy fromusb boot

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Juanito

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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,06:26

Before I try to make a DSL 3.2 frugal hd install to an ancient desktop, I thought I'd check if it is (theoretically) possible.

I saw several posts that mention a frugal hd install must be on hda - since I am using a floppy "fromusb" boot on a machine with scsi hd, I have the following:

sda - the USB stick I boot from
sdb - the Windows boot hd
sdc - the hd I would like to use for the frugal install

Will a frugal hd install be possible on this machine?

roberts

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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,06:36

Lilo will use the active partition of the target.
Grub will insist on the MBR of hda.

I have dsl lilo frugal on sdc1, a compact flash, no problems.

If you choose grub then you will have to edit the menu.lst to adjust accordingly. There was a recent post about this.

Juanito

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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,13:59

Hmm - I tried the frugal-lilo install right-click menu using dsl 3.2 (floppy "fromusb" boot using toram on a machine with 512MB) on the following setup:

sdc1 ntfs windows partition
sdc2 linux swap - 1GB
sdc3 linux bootable partition - 2GB
sdc4 linux partition - 7GB

I had a couple of problems:

1. The menu states I should type "i" to install from a local iso file - in fact the script appears to be looking for an "f" to do this.

2. After chosing "f" and specifiying the local iso file, I chose sdc3 as the dsl partition and sdc4 as the restore and mydsl partition and everything goes as expected right up until the "are you sure" message. At this point I have 2.4/3.0 MB of the local filesystem free - after hitting "y" the script formats sdc3, starts to write to it and then the frugal-lilo window disappears - the local filesystem now has 0/3.0 MB free.

Looking at the sdc3 partition with emelFM, I can see that the script has written the lilo.conf file and started (+/- 2MB) to write the knoppix image. I cannot manually copy anything to the partition as the drive is reported full (it isn't).

Using the df command, /dev/root.old is reported to be 100% full but I cannot see this directory using emelFM.

Any ideas?

roberts

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Posted: Jan. 21 2007,16:02

Juanito,

I don't have any problems when booting from CD to install frugal lilo.
I tested the i/f option and found a problem. Seems some of my changes from frugal-grub did not get propagated back to frugal lilo.
Anyway here is the change needed.

Look for the line
IMAGE="/mnt/staging"

Add this line just below it:
BOOT="/mnt/staging/boot/isolinux"

I just ran with this mod and successful in installing frugal lilo to hdd1 compact flash using the install from file option.

Thanks for feedback and reporting this.

As far as any issues with scsi disk, I don't know. I don't have any old scsi disks/controllers. Be sure that your scsi module is loaded and you can access the correct device.

Edited by roberts on Jan. 21 2007,16:07