HD Install :: hda1 becomes read only



Hi there,

After playing around with the iso CD boot, I just decided to try an install on the hard disk because I found that system often hangs a while and spin the CD before continue its work.  But my hard disk has only one partition for my old win98.  As I know, I can't actually install DSL on the hard disk, am I correct ?  Pls correct me if not.

So I downloaded the boot image and created the boot floppy and copied the KNOPPIX folder to c:\ drive of win98 to let the notebook boot from floppy and access the KNOPPIX in c:\.  Everything seems fine during the boot.  But it's found that hda1 is mounted on /cdrom and is read only.

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0                 3067       611      2456  20% /
/dev/hda1             14718872   4489324  10229548  31% /cdrom
/dev/cloop              120078    120078         0 100% /KNOPPIX
/ramdisk                 42060      1332     40728   3% /ramdisk
/dev/fd0                  1424        47      1377   3% /mnt/auto/floppy

This will be different if I do a CD boot and mount hda1 where I can read-write hda1.
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0                 2971       685      2286  23% /
/dev/scd0                50332     50332         0 100% /cdrom
/dev/cloop              120078    120078         0 100% /KNOPPIX
/ramdisk                 42496      3536     38960   8% /ramdisk
/dev/hda1             14718872   4489324  10229548  31% /mnt/hda1
/dev/fd0                  1424        47      1377   3% /mnt/auto/floppy

So, are there any tricks with the floppy boot ?

Thanks.
The partition where is copied KNOPPIX folder become /cdrom folder.
The only solution that I do know is to have the KNOPPIX folder on another partition than hda1. Unfortunately as you said before, you have hda1 only.
Check the hda1 size respect to hard disk size to know if the hard disk have at least space unpartitioned to create a new partition.

I'm not sure, but perhaps is possible resizing without loss data an existing partition getting so free space to create a new partition.
Thanks for your info.

But is it possible to resize an existing partition ?  Um... if I have another partition, I can actually install DSL to that partition and choose to boot either win98 or DSL without the liveCD or floppy, right?
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But is it possible to resize an existing partition ?

Installing Debian it is possible.
3.5. Pre-Partitioning for Multi-Boot Systems
Read under title: 3.5.1.1. Lossless Repartitioning When Starting From DOS, Win-32 or OS/2
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I can actually install DSL to that partition and choose to boot either win98 or DSL without the liveCD or floppy, right?

Yes.
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Installing Debian it is possible.


Hi, do you mean download Debian to install and drop DSL ?  I have only 64M and this is a PII 330 notebook.  Is this enough to run Debian Linux.  By the way, I have seen somewhere that I can install DSL as Debian (e.g. Shown at the top of www.damnsmalllinux.org page).  Do you know what does this mean ?  Thanks.
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