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Posted: Feb. 10 2007,17:50 QUOTE

Hi, I tried to install DSL on an old P100 Machine with 40MB of RAM (well, there might be more in, but the board can´t handle more). It has two hdds (hda1, 170MB and hdc1, 1.2GB, both fat), on one was DOS with Windows 3.11, the other contained Windows95. Now I wanted do install DSL, so I choosed to put It on  hda1 removing DOS and enabling dual boot with win95. But after installing, grub said to me that hdc1 (the primary hdd, don´t ask me why it´s not hda) cant be used to install it on, becaurse it´s not a linux fs on it. So I decided thet I won´t need that crapy Win95 and so I installed it dsl on hdc1, too (using ext2 fs as recomended for slower machines). But whenever I start the machine now, it only tells me that the operating system is missing tho all the files are on it (I checked this booting dsl from cd, but it only has a 4xCd drive that even doesn´t read cd-rw, only -r, so a hd installation would be much better). Whenever I try installing grub manualy using grub-install /dev/hdc1 (or hda1, but that wouldn´t work in any case, becaurse it always boots from hdc1), it only gives me "/dev/cloop does not have any corresponding BIOS drive." or "df: /: cant't find mount point.
df: /boot: cant't find mount point." when I run it as root (sould be do done that way, souldn´t it ;))
So what can I do now? I´m a quiet linux-novice...
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Posted: Mar. 02 2007,05:16 QUOTE

so you mean that your harddisk is now only with DSL.

if so then you can erase the entire harddisk and repartition using cfdisk in DSL CD (i suppose this is the partition tool that normally comes with DSL) and reinstall DSL again but this time only to one partition.

Hope it will work.  Pls backup files if there are any with DSL CD using any removable media if necessary.


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