HD Install :: Olivetti Echos P100E

Hi,
I owned a Olivetti Echos P133 years ago.
I can slightly remember the following procedure:
I used the floppy device for booting (is there a boot floppy for DSL?). Then at the moment when I had to use the cd I put the laptop to "suspend to ram". This worked with the hotkeys and seemed to be independend of OS.
Then I changed the floppy device to the CD.
And then I proceeded with the installation.
But this was many years ago with a very old linux version.
But you can give it a try.
I had no problems in installing or running linuy on that laptop.

Br,
Gatu

The adapter has arrived and as far as I know I have installed DSL to the HDD, only DSL is not booting. I tried running the install again and it tells me that I need to run cfdisk to build a linux partition. How /where can I run cfdisk?

Did you try to boot the disk in the desktop? If it doesn't boot there, it could be a problem with the lilo boot loader. You can run cfdisk from the live CD as root. If you don't mind wiping the disk and starting from scratch again you could run this command first:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
This assumes that your disk really is /dev/hda.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Loadlin_Install

Works on my laptop. no need for playing with lilo etc.

If you want to make a standard hd install, i tell you instructions.

1) Make a 100 mb fat partition (mine was fat32)
2) Copy files from DSL cd to the partition.
3) Copy isolinux folder from boot folder to the root of the fat32 partiton ( c: has folders: Knoppix, boot, isolinux)
4) Make the options.txt file as mentioned on the link (i needed to change vga=normal to vga=788)
5) Copy loadlin to isolinux folder
6) Boot with dos boot disk (win9x disks works fine)
7) go to isolinux folder
8) Write:
loadlin @options.txt
9) DSL should boot.
10) Make the wanted partitions swap etc. as you like but dont delete the fat32 partition yet.
11) Install dsl.

Thats it i think.

original here.