HD Install :: Want to install DSL on an old pc

I tried to reinstall the way u2musicmike said but if I reboot i get error 17 I'm a linux noob i don't know what i have to do now.

Jouster,

Grub error 17 is saying it doesn't see your harddrive partition. When you used the DOS bootdisk did you delete all of the partitions? Maybe the MBR is corrupt? Some BIOS have a hidden partition and might not start where grub wants. You can try to reinstall grub:

grub-install /dev/hda

If you suspect a faulty drive: badblocks -svw /dev/hda
Please note that the "w" option overwrites everything on the disk.
If you want to wipe your disk and start from scratch: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

I just put DSL on a P233 and it made me create 2 partitions with the first being for swapfiles and DSL going on hda2.

The instructions I followed.

When I type grub-install /dev/hda it says /dev/cloop does not have any corresponding BIOS drive

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