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Posted: July 20 2007,03:33 QUOTE

The extensions are not on the cd by default.

You probably want "fb800x600 lowram nodhcp pci=assign-busses"
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Posted: July 29 2007,23:59 QUOTE

After lots of messing around with wireless cards and partitioning I'm ready to do a frugal install. I removed my hard drive and connected it to my desktop running Mint and shrunk the windows partition, then made three new partitions for boot, swap and /home (with gparted). I then put the drive back in the laptop and booted with the dsl 2 option. I then ran /usr/sbin/frugal_grub.sh, picked hda3 for the image, told it to install from the live cd and to format the partition. I then got the following error:

Formatting during install: EXT2-fs error (device ide0 (3,3)): read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group=7 block_bitmap=57583
cp: writing '/mnt/hda3/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX': Input/output error
grub installation completed.

I have no idea what this means or how to proceed.
Should I delete and recreate the partitions but not format them?

Thanks.
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Posted: July 30 2007,08:25 QUOTE

could it be that hda3 you created was too small after formatting? Ya know formatting takes couple of mb's for metadata..

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Posted: July 30 2007,17:18 QUOTE

I made the partition 57 M, like you said to do. I was getting an error when I formatted the partition under Mint. I deleted the partition and tried it again but still got the error. Maybe I should create the partitions with gparted then format them under DSL.
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Posted: July 30 2007,18:11 QUOTE

yeah, you could try that..

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