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So which version of DSL did you install? Just wondering...

Quote (Guest @ Nov. 14 2004,23:02)

Could you do me a favor and point me to the tutorial that tells how to do something like that? I have an old 75Mhz Pentium that I want to set up. It does not have the capability to boot from the CD rom (if i borrow one to put in there even). It will be a little work slave accessed thru SSH. I just need to get it running. I am not that proficient with linux, but I am good at reading instructions and making it work.

Thanks.
Matthew

The method I did takes a bit of work but it does work!!

http://awphuch2000.dyndns.org:1079/linux.....floppy

P.S. This is a HOWTO revision in a kind of Wiki format requested by roberts (old method was for 0.7.* and below)

Brian
AwPhuch

That almost sounds too simple. Great... now I KNOW im gonna screw it up. LOL. Thanks for your help.

Quote (Matthew @ Nov. 15 2004,14:38)

That almost sounds too simple. Great... now I KNOW im gonna screw it up. LOL. Thanks for your help.

Nah I believe if I can explain how its done to myself a monkey could do it!

I call it my "dumb whiteboy" explanation...so if this 1/2 wit redneck from Texas can do it anyone anywhere can do it even easier!!!

no offence to you other 1/2 wit rednecks...K

Hell if Micheal Garfield is the "Hightech Texan" im the Lowtech Redneck!!

YEEEHAW!!!!!!!!!!

Brian
AwPhuch

Ok, I tried it... and my computer threw up on me. So many errors. That and they were in hexidecimal. I dont read hexidecimal! I broke down and am installing windows on it. I am going to install the grub loader and hopefully dual boot. I know windows.. but I cant run what I need to and windows on 64 megs.

*edit* I used fdisk to make the two HDD (Pri 700Mb, Sla 800Mb) into a single fat16 partition per drive (I had fedora core 2 installed on them by another machine). Then I booted with the floppy and it worked... kinda. I entered "dsl 2" at the first prompt... and it did its thing... and then I got the "knoppix#" prompt. I tried the "dsl-hdinstall" command and it told me it didnt exist. What did I do wrong?

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