Cant complete HD installForum: HD Install Topic: Cant complete HD install started by: rdg37 Posted by rdg37 on Dec. 28 2003,05:10
Hi,I am trying to install DSL on and old p-100 laptop (16 MB ram) which I want to take apart and make into a digital picture frame. I am running DSL from a CD image on hda1 (dos partition) and have made a new partition with about 300MB space (hda5) and a swap partiton (hda6). DSL runs fine from the 'virtual cd drive' but when I run the dsl-hdinstall script it gets to the stage when it starts copying files to the new partition, their is some hard drive activity for a while then everything just stops and I have to reboot. If I later use mkliloboot that works and enables DSL to start to boot from the hard drive untill it gets to "freeing unused kernel memory: 124k freed" then I get "Warning: unable to open an initial console." and finally "Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel". Does any one have any idea how I might get around this? Thanks in advance -Richard Posted by dany on Dec. 29 2003,03:12
hello,i had the same problem with an old laptop with a cyrix pentium1 clone (66mhz) and 16mb ram while installing from a dos partition.. to make dsl-hdinstall work i had to modify it... first, i told it to use ext3 instead of ext2 (that got me further on the process without hanging), then i had to change the lines that create a gzipped tar of the /KNOPPIX directory to actually use: cp -dvpR for each of the main directories found on /KNOPPIX one by one, e.g: cd /mnt/hd; cp -dpvR /KNOPPIX/dev . cd /mnt/hd; cp -dpvR /KNOPPIX/lib . .... etc... if it hangs on the process reboot, change the dsl-hdinstall so it doesn't format the hdd partition (but let it mount it), comment the copy command for the directories already copied so it could continue copying all that is missing and end the install correctly.. ...you might have to do the process a few times.. i found out that it tends to hang when copying /KNOPPIX/lib and /KNOPPIX/usr/lib, so i let those two directories be the last ones to be copied.. and even then i gave the copy command for those two by hand in a shell.. then i commented the file copy commands on dsl-hdinstall and let it finish the installation normally... hope it helps.. Dany Posted by rdg37 on Dec. 31 2003,04:56
Thanks Dany, much appreciated.I tried your suggestions above, but for some reason it still decided to hang half way through copying files and I could not get them all copied over. The solution was to buy a 2.5" -> 3.5" IDE adapter and put my laptop hard drive in my desktop (as hda1), boot from my CD drive and do a HD install. |