HD Install :: Dual boot

Winimage is another good program for making floppies
from .img files. More GUI than rawrite, less command line.
Whichever your flavor, both work well.

MAKE sure your floppy has no bad sectors
before attempting to write a .img file to it !!

Formatting 1.457,664 bytes should be 1,457,664 good bytes and
zero bytes in bad sectors with windows 98/me/2k/xp !!

Otherwise, the boot disk may fail to boot.

73
ke4nt

most interesting, a file that large and it only uses 2.5Kb on my floppy. so i got that bit down pat.

when i boot i get right through everything (Xversa setup it think it is and i chose the one for older laptops)

it then comes up with the following message:

modprobe: modprobe: can't locate module fb0
XIO: fatal I/O error 104 (connection reset by peer on xserver ":0.0:
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 remaining.
damnsmall@tty[damnsmall]$

What is this? i am currently assuming it is some kind of text based prompt and that DSL cant boot to a graphical desktop so it has defaulted to command line only mode!!!

-walnut

Try this, it helps with one of my laptops ...

At the first splash screen, use the boot option fb800x600
Then when you get to the xvesa setup, choose xfbdev,
then 800x600.

reply back and let us know if that helps.

73
ke4nt

Thanx for that, works like a charm, i had other issues aswell but spent like 2 hours trying just about every option and eventually got it done, now my next question is this:

Once i have booted to DSL and i have it on the desktop, it runs kinda sluggish (i expected this as i am running it on a 486 DX/4 with 16Mb of RAM) so i wanted to know to format the second partition of 80Mb as a swap space, and once it is done, can i just right click the drive and format it to FAT32 from windows if i decide to change it back??

A Linux Swap partition will not appear as a drive letter in Windows Explorer.

However, it is still possible to locate it and reformat it without using a Linux utility:

Use the "FDISK" DOS/WINDOWS command line utility to delete the linux partition and replace it with a FAT/FAT32 partition.

Then you can either use FORMAT or the Format Choice in Windows explorer to format your newly created partition.

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