unh0ly_freak
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Posted: April 28 2007,03:12 |
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| Quote (lucky13 @ April 27 2007,22:25) | |
| Quote | How much RAM do you have? You may need to use lowram:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Cheat_Codes
After it boots up, you'll need to get a command line -- either exit to console (and type "sudo su" and enter) or launch aterm as superuser (root). That's where you type fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever your hard drive is -- I'll assume if it's older/smaller that it's hda). You want there to be an asterisk next to your Linux partition like this with whatever partitions you have:
| Code Sample |
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
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/dev/hda3 * 701 2491 14386207+ 83 Linux
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If you don't see an asterisk next to the non-swap partition, you can run cfdisk and toggle it bootable. This is what cfdisk will look like:
http://www.eff.org/IP/broadcastflag/cookbook/cfdisk.png
Just move up or down to highlight the Linux (NOT the swap) partition and then move the menu (right-left arrow keys) to Bootable and hit enter. It should be flagged as bootable after that. Then move over to WRITE. Hit enter. It will prompt you because it's rewriting your partition table. Make sure it's right for what you want to do (if you're doing a frugal install, you really need three partitions -- a swap, one 55-60 MB partition for the ISO, and the rest can be used for persistent /home and /opt partitions as well as for your backup). Once you've written it you can quit cfdisk. |
I went back in zboot and made 3 partitions like you said I should do.. one swap, one native about 60MB, and the rest is on a native also.
Which native should be set to bootable? The 60MB one or the larger sized one?
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