mmm
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Joined: Jan. 2007 |
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Posted: Jan. 27 2007,00:53 |
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Roberts and the group,
SUCCESS!
Thank you very much for all of your help. A big thankyou for the bootfloppy.img, that made it much easier.
At the boot prompt
# dsl 2 vga=normal mem=16M legacy frugal
I tried fb800x600 it worked but the computer froze at the black and white background, I needed to make a dosswapfile, they seem to disappear.
I still got "mount: can't find/ ramdisk in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab" and
"chgcp: /cdrom: Operation not permitted".
Then at the command line I typed "free".
swap was 0 bytes
#mkdosswapfile
made it 128M this time
# sudo su
# shutdown -r now
F2 at boot
# dsl vga=normal mem=16M legacy frugal
I omitted dosswapfile, previously I thought this was neccesary.
I still got "mount: can't find/ ramdisk in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab" and
"chgcp: /cdrom: Operation not permitted".
At X setup, xvesa this time, 800x 600 etc.
I originally chose xfbdev as the computer is circa 1995. I did try it once before but you know the story.
Slowly got black and white background, cursor then grey desktop etc.
Now I don't know what to do. I don't want to turn it off ;). I hope I can replicate what I did. I think I'll delete Windows, it wasn't much use during this process.
A couple of questions.
Is the dosswapfile the same as Linux/DSL swap type 82?
If not (I think they might be) what size should I make them/it for 16M RAM?
How big should the following be?
1. one for your dos containing the boot knoppix folder (Big enough for Dos and 50M Knoppix file i.e 60Mb?)
2. one for Linux/DSL swap type 82 (twice RAM i.e. 32 Mb?)
3. one for DSL installation type 83 (the balance i.e 900Mb, 1Gb harddrive?)
Last question, are sugggesting that I do Debian type install or frugal. I guess it doesn't matter I'll just do this
"You will most likely not want to run poormans in 16MB.
You will have to partition the drive into at least 3 partitions.
1. one for your dos containing the boot knoppix folder
2. one for Linux/DSL swap type 82
3. one for DSL installation type 83
Partitioning should be done before you attemp to do a traditional hard drive installation.
boot: dsl 2 vga=normal mem=16M frugal legacy
at the root prompt type dsl-hdinstall
# dsl-hdinstall"
Last Last question: Do you think I should write a procedure and post it? Or is no one silly enough to do this. Again thankyou for your help, you helped a senior (My Dad) use a senior computer.
Regards,
mmm aka Marcus
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