HD Install :: Good news and questions

Hello, I just bought a Toshiba P266mhz, 96mb ram, two 2gb HD's, with a wireless WPC11 v.4 PCMCIA, came with a CD/DVD player.

I had problems at first with the video. I did the fb800x600, xfbver (I think that was it), and the display looks great now.

The WPC11 v.4 I used the realtek drivers rt8180 in NDISWRAPPER and that is working great, I am up on my wireless work. YES!!!

My problem now is: Eventhough my computer has a CD/DVD the bios doesn't let me chose to boot to my CD. The way I booted now was I copied the KNOPPIX and BOOT directory onto C:\ and used the boot floppy.

I want to install DSL on my HD. HOw would I go about doing this without a CD. I need to run fdisk, create the partitions and install the data. I am not sure how to do this with a CD. I don't want to keep booting to the floopy and doing the poor man's install. I want either a full HD install or a frugal? Do I create another partition with the whole CD copied to that partition?

Thanks...

I had a similar problem with a laptop I run. I ended up updating its bios to the last bios update possible (a 2002 bios revision iirc) & that allowed it to boot from CDRW's whereas before I could only use CDR's. Try that first perhaps.

Aveline

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?&act=ST&f=5&t=11902

That might be the answer for your "problem"

aveline, great idea!!! I never thought of updating the bios. I still don't know if that will do it. Because right now, it only lets me boot to the floppy or the HD, but your idea is worth a try.

If aveline's idea doesn't work, I am going to try fxb.

fxb said:

I have a couple questions fxb..
1.Do a 130 - 256 mb Fat32 partition
2.Make loadlin install on it (you can find instructions from dsl wiki)
3.Boot your new dsl system and look if everything works fine
4.Make a linux partition from rest of your hd.
5.do a hd install.
6.boot to dsl.
7.Change the first partitions type to linux swap, Fat32 to linux swap
8.and reboot, then you should have your linux up and running "normally"

Ok, what is the "loadin" install? I will try to look it up...

Once I get my latop up and going, I will have 3 DSL 2.2B machines running. I might end up starting this all over when I start messing with OpenMosix. But this is all good practice.

Wiki explains it all, its one of the poormans installs.
By the way does anyone else than me know that install/boot from usb works also like this:
1. Unpack dslx.x.iso, copy unpacked files to usb stick
2. Copy dslx.x.iso to usb stick
3. Make dsl usb-floppy
4. boot from usb with that floppy
5. Do partitions and install
Did you guys allready knowed that or am i the only one?or have i missed something?

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