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jin01

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Posted: Oct. 19 2007,04:29

I tried several times to install the bootloader during the "Install to HD", but the terminal ended and stopped the process. So I repeated the process and did not try to install a bootloader. First "mkswap /devsda5" "mke2fs -j /dev/sda6" tried "swapon /dev/sda5" - device already in use so okay. I closed the term and browsed to "Install to HD" Everything copied okay, setting up "/root/, setting up "/home/dsl/" both okay. Error on -

"tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
mount: relocation error: mount: undefined symbol: blkid_known_fstype
cp: cannot stat '/mnt/auto/floppy/linux24': No such file or directoy"

Then the lines:

The installation process is finished.
Proceed to install a bootloader (y/...):

I answered "n" and exited.

I mounted "sda6" and it appears there are 18 directories there.
Questions:

Is there a problem with the error? Is it the result of sda1 being a win/dos disk? Can I now try to boot the linux "sda6" with loadlin? After setup can a boot loader like grub be installed?

I think I am close, but a little unsure as to how to proceed. Thank you for all your help so far.

curaga

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Posted: Oct. 19 2007,11:51

I'm really not sure what happened for you. All that is really weird.

How about just installing a bootloader to boot that self-copied frugal on your fat32?
And then having the ext3 drive for other data?

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jin01

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Posted: Oct. 19 2007,12:32

I think it did copy all the files to sda6. Maybe I could manually copy the image, initrd and files to sda6 from the CD. Is that possible and which files do I need copy. The "fdisk -l" sees all the partitions, but it lists the win95 disk as FAT16 is that a problem? I really ideally would not mind going to a linux only setup. But I am affraid to eliminate the win95 which is my backdoor at this time. I have a 1GB spare drive. Is it possible to prepare that drive for linux transfer all files, remove other drives and have it boot?

jin01

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Posted: Oct. 19 2007,14:21

Clarification to what I was thinking. I created a boot floppy on another machine running DSL from a CD. Could this floppy be used to boot a preconfigured disk as described above. If it has the KNOPPIX directory and image would it be able to load using the floppy?

curaga

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Posted: Oct. 19 2007,14:28

Yeah, you could just use that one drive.

Something like:

Boot that loadlin DSL. Partition the new drive with a 70mb linux partition, a swap one, and the rest space in one partition. Format 'em all. Then move all files from the cd to the 70mb partition.

Now make a menu.lst for grub. I think there is an example on in DSL, but don't remember where..
You could search it up with "find / -name menu.lst". The only things you'll need to change are
"root (hdX,X)" and "root=/dev/hda2" parts. Since it's the first HD when you boot it, it will be sda1 and (hd0,0). Put that into /boot/grub of the 70mb partition.

Also copy stage1_5-e2fs, stage1 and stage2 from /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/ to /boot/grub of the partition.

Now you'll only have to install grub:
make the old device.map in /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc (not sure if that's where it was) say
(hd0) /dev/sdXX
where the XX is what the new drive is currently, ie sdb or sdc..

Hope this helps

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