Max
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Posted: Feb. 03 2005,18:36 |
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If you can boot to an Xwindow...then right click on the screen and find the "XShells->Root Access" menu option. That should get you a shell which will resemble the NT cmd screen.
Now, assuming you've trashed your NT install and don't want to keep it, you can run "fdisk /dev/hda" to start up the disk partitioning program. You can do a "p" to view the current partitions. I think "m" gets you a list of commands. What you want to do is create 2 partitions. One to hold the DSL install and one to act as a swap partition. (NT uses a contiguous swap file, Linux just uses a whole partition).
I typically make the first partition the swap partition. Since you have 16MB of RAM, make the partition 32MB. Use the "n" option to create a new partition, "P" (Primary), "1" (part #), accept first cylinder, "+32M" and enter.
The system will create the partition with a Linux system type of 83. We need to change that to 82 to make it a swap partition. So hit "t" then "82". In Linux this partition will be known as "/dev/hda1"
Now create another partition using the same method only make it at least 64MB to hold the frugal DSL hard disk install. (I would shoot for around 75 to 100 if you have the disk space). This would be primary partition #2. Leave the partition type at 83. In Linux this partition will be known as "/dev/hda2" and the "physical device" (e.g. dev) is usually mounting in the file structure as "/mnt/hda2"
Now you can exit fdisk by choosing "w" which will actually write all the changes you've done above to the disk.
You should be back at the shell prompt now. Next you can format the swap partition with "mkswap /dev/hda1"
Now I would do a hard reboot so your BIOS knows about the hard disk changes. Old BIOS's can be funny.
After you're booted and get back to X, right click on the screen and choose "Apps->Tools->Frugal Install" and when prompted tell it you want to install to "hda2"
Note that since you have very little memory, if you have the space, I would do a regular "Install to Hard Drive" This will keep DSL from creating a ramdisk to run things and you can use that memory for actual application memory. But you'll need to create a larger partition than 64MB. I think some of the posts here recommend about 150MB (but I'm sure I'll be corrected).
After all that, take out the CD and reboot. You should have you system installed on the hard disk...
Good luck.
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