HD Install :: Installing from one partition to another
I have a laptop without a cd-rom drive and with a 500mb hard drive. 486 dx100, 500mb hd, 16mb ram with the following partitions
/dev/hda1 * 1-425 linux native (ext3) /dev/hda2 426-489 vfat partition with broken dos os /dev/hda3 490-523 Linux swap
After several days I have managed to get MUlinux (http://mulinux.sunsite.dk/) installed on /dev/hda1 with full pcmcia support. This took much disk swapping and was a very painful procedure... anyway the next thing I did was grab the iso, extract the files and place both the iso and the files into /dev/hda1 I am now at the point where I want to eventually install DSL linux onto /dev/hda1 but I have a great fear of taking the next step because of the pain endured in getting the laptop at all functional...
I think I have to do it this way:
Install onto /dev/hda2, set the boot flag and mbr reboot dsl on /dev/hda2, make sure I can set up pcmcia again and thus my safety net install dsl onto /dev/hda1, overwriting MUlinux. formatting /dev/hda2 as vfat again or removing it entirely...
I would appreciate any assistance in this. especially some hints in installing dsl from a linux partition to another partition... none of the HOWTO's seemed to cover this quite unique case.
edit:: Ignore all this I think I got itI have a machine just like that with a little bit larger dorrito in it!
Brian AwPhuchyeah... I found the second page with rawwinwrite like two minutes after my first post...
I'm pretty sure it's installed now.
A few quick questions about it. is there anyway to prevent the startup to regenerate the ld.so.cache and modules.dep and the autoconfiguring of devices.
I should only need to run that once even though it doesn't take all that long. and the second question: when I first log in it automatically starts the Xserver yet when I ctrl-alt-backspace out of it I can't get in with startx. I am assuming something else is being used instead. Ideally I want to be dumped to a terminal when I log in, instead of opening up the GUI...
anyway I'm sure I can figure it out this is one professional looking distro =P
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is there anyway to prevent the startup to regenerate the ld.so.cache and modules.dep and the autoconfiguring of devices.
Edit /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig where you comment out the line(s) with ldconfig.to install from one partition to the other you could either copy the partition or use the hdinstall menu item. it will make a copy of itself on another partition including anything you have added.Next Page...
original here.