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Topic: Installing from one partition to another, 400mb ext3/64mb vfat/50mb swap

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Happy

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Posted: Nov. 23 2004,11:20

I have a laptop without a cd-rom drive and with a 500mb hard drive.
486 dx100, 500mb hd, 16mb ram with the following partitions

/dev/hda1 * 1-425 linux native (ext3)
/dev/hda2 426-489 vfat partition with broken dos os
/dev/hda3 490-523 Linux swap

After several days I have managed to get MUlinux (http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/) installed on /dev/hda1 with full pcmcia support. This took much disk swapping and was a very painful procedure...
anyway the next thing I did was grab the iso, extract the files and place both the iso and the files into /dev/hda1
I am now at the point where I want to eventually install DSL linux onto /dev/hda1 but I have a great fear of taking the next step because of the pain endured in getting the laptop at all functional...

I think I have to do it this way:

Install onto /dev/hda2, set the boot flag and mbr
reboot dsl on /dev/hda2, make sure I can set up pcmcia again and thus my safety net
install dsl onto /dev/hda1, overwriting MUlinux.
formatting /dev/hda2 as vfat again or removing it entirely...

I would appreciate any assistance in this.
especially some hints in installing dsl from a linux partition to another partition... none of the HOWTO's seemed to cover this quite unique case.

edit:: Ignore all this
I think I got it

AwPhuch

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Posted: Nov. 23 2004,14:46

I have a machine just like that with a little bit larger dorrito in it!

http://damnsmalllinux.org/install_from_floppy.html
rewrite here
http://awphuch2000.dyndns.org:1079/linux.....floppy

I hope it helps you out bud

Brian
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Happy

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Posted: Nov. 23 2004,21:07

yeah...
I found the second page with rawwinwrite like two minutes after my first post...

I'm pretty sure it's installed now.

A few quick questions about it.
is there anyway to prevent the startup to regenerate the ld.so.cache and modules.dep and the autoconfiguring of devices.

I should only need to run that once even though it doesn't take all that long.
and the second question:
when I first log in it automatically starts the Xserver
yet when I ctrl-alt-backspace out of it I can't get in with startx.
I am assuming something else is being used instead.
Ideally I want to be dumped to a terminal when I log in, instead of opening up the GUI...

anyway
I'm sure I can figure it out
this is one professional looking distro =P

skaos

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Posted: Nov. 24 2004,11:02

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is there anyway to prevent the startup to regenerate the ld.so.cache and modules.dep and the autoconfiguring of devices.

Edit /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig where you comment out the line(s) with ldconfig.

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Posted: Nov. 24 2004,16:49

to install from one partition to the other you could either copy the partition or use the hdinstall menu item. it will make a copy of itself on another partition including anything you have added.

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