HD Install :: Old laptop's install



i have a quite old laptop here, specs:

150 mhz CPU
16mb ram
usb
cd-rom

with cfdisk (from another distro cd) i managed to get two partitions on my HD, a swap partition of 160mb and 2Gb's of space to install dsl. the normal partition is called hda5 and the swap one is hda6.

what exactly do i have to do to install dsl to my harddisk, there is no window$ or anything else on my hd. so what to do now?
have you booted the liveCD? if so look at the file that pops up in dillo. it gives you simple instructions for both the frugal and traditional HD installs....if thats not enough check the wiki.....then use the search function here at the forum and read the questions and answers to this and a biuzillion other questions. good luck!

torp

p.s you might try "fb800x600 lowram" for booting the liveCD
Quote (torp @ Feb. 12 2006,12:21)
have you booted the liveCD? if so look at the file that pops up in dillo. it gives you simple instructions for both the frugal and traditional HD installs....if thats not enough check the wiki.....then use the search function here at the forum and read the questions and answers to this and a biuzillion other questions. good luck!

torp

p.s you might try "fb800x600 lowram" for booting the liveCD

ah, i've already tried to boot it. with the framebuffering mode. but that doesnt really seem to succed. so i still havent booted dsl at al. i wil try that lowram thingy
well i tried. but no things get nasty (this also happened before):

I get a spamload of errors all like: Cloop: read error at pos... blaalbllaablaa... :O bytes lost
more of this cloop stuff
all these errors are about KNOPPIX. this file or whatever is located in cdrom/knoppix/KNOPPIX
then i get this:
INIT ID "1" respawning too fast: disables for five minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runmode.

What the penguin is this?
Can you boot with some other kinda OS, IE: DOS or Tom's Root Boot Disk?

Then you can create and format a FAT or EXT2 partition.

Then copy the \KNOPPIX\KNOPPIX file over to this partition.

Then try a boot floppy, without using the CD disk.
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