HD Install :: installing from iso

Hello all,

I down loaded 2 versions of dsl and I do not get very far from boot.

This is what happens...

using dpms dos protected mode services
cache size:7670 kb (xms)
minimum cache size : 1024 kb
write through drives: A B

Current options
/MLX program is loaded into conventional & XMS memory using dpms
/BL=16 look ahead buffer is in conventional memory size in kb
/Lend=ON lend memory to other applications-6646kb available
/Delay=OFF write delay is disabled, caching is write through

Caldera DR-DOS 7.03
copyright © 1976, 1998 caldera, inc. all rights reserved
[DR-DOS] A:\>

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

P.S.

I am tring to put DSL on a emachine, 533mhz, 32 meg sd ram, 8.4 g hd, floppy drive, cd rom that seems to be working.

I have the bios set to 1st boot cd rom, 2nd hdd.

I also tried to boot up on another box that I am currently using.

Thanks for any help.

You probably did not burn the cd properly. Please see the wiki on how to burn an .iso as a CD image.

Thanks, I did read through that info, but I am new to burning so that could very well be the problem. :blush: Back to reading...I will post either new questions or results.

Thanks again.

Hi! I'm new to DamnSmallLinux but not to Linux, though I'm still learning.

I recently downloaded an ISO of DSL and want to know if it's possible to boot it up from an ext2 partition (or two) belonging to a different Linux distribution? It's no problem to extract the files from the ISO as I have Midnight Commander installed, but I'd need to know what files go where and what entries to put on my Lilo configuration file.

At present I dual-boot between Windows XP (NTFS, so I don't think I could use Loadlin) and Vector Linux 5.8. I've got a main Vector partition which contains my boot subdirectory and a secondary one on which I store my tar and config file copies for when I need to reinstall.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Colonel Panic .

Colonel Panic: Although your question doesn't have to do with this thread's particular problem... I will try to answer it here.

Booting from an iso: you'll probably need a special bootloader. (haven't done this myself)

Manual frugal (the way I install mine): Extracting the iso's contents onto some place on a partition (you won't need everything here...). Add the boot configuration for a frugal installation in your bootloader (see {iso|sys}linux/{iso|sys}linux.cfg for some bootloader customization, or search around the web) . Reboot.

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