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It seems to be complicated... my only other computer is a laptop :(


i have to plug a cdrom drive in the dinosaur... just for the install
You could use a parallel port connection & plip with a copy of Tomsrtbt >http://www.toms.net/rb.
Slow but it does work. (sort of linux laplink)

You'll need to read up about the plip command - Its been too long since I've used it, I honestly can't remember the details.
HTH.
Hi,

1. Install DSL in a partition /dev/hda1 (PC);
2. Optmize DSL (disable X-Window in boot, disable unnecessary service, etc);
3. Install and use partimage to save a image of /dev/hda1 (damnsmall.img);
4. Copy partimage program and image of /dev/hda1 (PC) to Zip Disk 100;
5. Boot your notebook with minidistro in floppy disk (floppix, tomrt?, etc);
6. Make a partition /dev/hda1 (ext2) in HD of notebook;
7. Modprobe ppa and mount Zipdrive;
8. Use partimage on the zip disk to restore the image damnsmall.img in the zip disk to /dev/hda1 (notebook);
9. Make a boot disk in DSL (PC);
10. Boot your notebook with boot disk of DSL;
11. Edit /etc/lilo.conf with nano and change to boot DSL by HD;
12. Reboot and enjoy.


Jaelson Lima
Brazil
I am running DSL in my HP omnibook 600C with HD PCMCIA of 340 MB and 16 MB of RAM with X-Window and mouse pop-up (obmouse).
Sit to computer with CDROM and with the harddisk you will later put to that dino :)
Boot DSL...make two partions with cfdisk...
hda1 = FAT32 (60 Mb)
hda2 = ext2 (anything else...lets say 300MB is minimal)

Mount cdrom and hda1
Copy whole cdrom to hda1
Put diskete ( !good one ! :-)
Then "sudo dd if=/cdrom/KNOPPIX/boot.img of=/dev/fd0"
Now shutdown and transfer harddisk to dino :-)
Put the boot floppy and hard-disk into dino.
#The system is going to boot like from liveCD #
Now do "dsl-hdinstall" answer yes and say that you want to install to /dev/hda2
Do the instalation of lilo.
Reboot computer.
After re-boot , set new root passwd, login as root and do "mkswap /dev/hda1" and reboot.
Now you have full-hdinstall with 60MB of SWAP :cool:

Isn't it gr8 ? :D :cool:
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