Jens
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Joined: May 2005 |
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Posted: May 03 2005,22:02 |
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Hello folks,
first of all Iīm somewhat unexperienced with unix, anyway Iīve always been curious, so I wanted to try it on my old notebook (486/50, 20 MB RAM, 800 HDD).
The first problem - I do have a CD-drive attached to the docking station, but I canīt boot from there, as my bios is too old. And even worse: Itīs SCSI, so these bootdisks, that bypass the BIOS-problem wonīt work. So I solved this problem by copying the image to the hard drive and using a bootdisk.
Then I had some trouble creating the swap partition, since the first created partition (at the beginning of the hard drive) always was my FAT16-partition with the image file on it. Creating a /dev/hda2 worked fine with DSL - however this couldnīt be made a swap partition - some error occured. Well - with some playing I could resolve this - and finally I could even install. I believe this went rather smoothly - the ext (or whatever it is called) has been installed to /dev/hda2 which is 500 MB big.
So I have the following now:
/dev/hda1: 210 MB Linux swap
/dev/hda2: 524 MB Linux ext2 (I set this to be bootable in cfdisk, but that doesnīt seem to help)
/dev/hda5: 78 (extended dos with logical drive) FAT 16 still bearing the DSL image
And then about 1 MB unpartitioned space left.
Additional information: I tried it once again and Iīll state some lines that seem to me potentially "dangerours"
While doing HD-install
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/bootimg/boot/isolinux/linux24': No such file or directory
umount: /mnt/bootimg: not mountet
While doing mkliloboot
gzip: /mnt/l1/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz: No such file or directory
umount: /mnt/l1: not mounted
loop0: read i/o error, sector 2
EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock
Fatal: open /boot/linux24: No such file or directory
And the result is "Missing operating system" when trying to boot. Damned thing. Hopefully someone can help me 
So the problem - LILO doesnīt work. Do you know, what might be the culprit? And if not - is there something like a bootdisk, that I could use? (The normal bootdisk just scans for image-files)
Regards
Jens
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