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Posted: April 25 2005,06:11 |
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I am currently building a small fanless PC using the VIA EPIA ML mainboard, 512Mb RAM and a 512Mb Compact Flash card using an IDE to CF adapter. My intention was to install DSL to the flash using a frugal install.
Reading the documentation in the "getting started" directory it seems to be a question of creating two partitions on the CF with fdisk or cfdisk and then starting the frugal shell script. However, the partitioning is proving to be a problem. When I enter "fdisk /dev/hda", I get the error message "Unable to read /dev/hda".
I scanned the messages during bootup (from the live CD) and noticed the following error:
"Modprobe: Can't locate module block-major 2"
I am not sure if this is related or not.
Scanning the dmesg output there seems to be some relevant messages:
ide-scsi: hda: unsupported command in request queue (0)
end-request: I/O Error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 4
Which is repeated multiple times.
I have tried the CF card in a USB card reader and it works perfectly - does anybody have an idea as to how I can get up and running. Sitting in the office all day with PC's whirring all around means a silent machine is a pretty great thing!
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Anyway, apart from a bit of tweaking to do, I am now up and running. Thanks again!