dingo
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Posted: Feb. 02 2006,15:30 |
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OK...here's what one linux newbie did to frugal install DSL on a Toshiba Libretto 110ct laptop (no CD, no floppy). It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. DSL makes it easy. I'm sure there are better ways to do some of the things listed here, but this is what worked for me. NOTE: this method overwrites all data on your hard drive.
Thanks to larkl, andrewb, and others here whose posts made it possible. I'd have never figured it out otherwise.
1) I removed the hard drive from the Libretto. It's not hard. Remove two screws on the bottom; pull the HD out; take off the metal carrier.
2) Replace the HD of another laptop with the Libretto HD (I used a Thinkpad a22m).
3) Boot DSl from the CD in the other computer with:
>dsl 2
4) run cfdisk and partition:
/dev/hda1 - 3000M for image and everything else (type 83, set to bootable)
/dev/hda5 - 500M for swap (type 82) --too big I think, but it works
-write partitions and exit cfdisk.
Other people have suggested a small partition for the image, and a separate large partition for everything else. That might be a better way to go. I left some freespace at the end of the disk. I've heard that the Libretto uses it for hibernation (but I don't really know).
5) Prepare partitions:
>mke2fs /dev/hda1
>mkswap /dev/hda5
>swapon /dev/hda5
6) Reboot DSL from CD (don't enter any dsl arguments at the prompt)
7) Apps>Tools>Frugal Install>Frugal Grub Install and follow the prompts (for image partition enter 'hda1'; for 'install from' enter 'l'; for format question enter 'y'.
8) After it tells you to reboot...shutdown the computer and remove the HD and replace it in the Libretto.
9) Boot the libretto
10) At the Grub menu, select DSL and hit 'e'.
11) Edit the 'VGA=normal' to 'VGA=807' (that's 800x480x16M for the libretto screen); Add 'xsetup' to the line. Then boot using those settings.
12) In the Xsetup menu choose 'xfbdev'; choose the ps2, 3 button mouse.
13) Let the boot continue...and you should have a nice, readable, 800x480 DSL desktop in front of you!
14) Now, edit the cdrom/boot/grub/menu.1st file to include the 'vga=807' code on startup; I also commented out the other dsl start options and uncommented the 'dsl 2' lines so that I have two choices on boot: dsl and dsl 2.
15) That's basically it. The only problem left is that some of the program windows open too big for the screeen. Hold down the Alt key and you can drag them down to the point where you can hit the maximize button. For some programs, you can modify the configuration files so that they start smaller. See this thread for some details:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....nd+size
Good luck and enjoy DSL on your libretto!
Dingo
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