HD Install :: hard drive install leads to agravation



Quote (jason2005 @ April 21 2005,21:18)
hard drive installs are making me insane?

i tried a 6gig notebook drive i have which i know works fine in windows. and i get segmentation fault !

i tried a dekstop 3 gig drive and i get a read error on boot?

its like i cannot win with DSL ?

the bootable cd works but i'd like to get this working with a hard drive?

Is it possible im doing something wrong?
ive followed instructions on this site for the install
cfdisk to partition the drive
then dsl-hdinstall
then install lilo and i reboot?

maybe im missing something?


tried just recently to install onto a new computer system which had fedora core 3 on it and it resulted in a vs kernel panic error after the install?

I ve had also problems with HD install..
It seems like the bootloader is the problem in my case.
When I get this ... extremely positive message>
99 99 99 99 99 9 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99
99 99 99 99 99 9 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 9999 99 99 99 99 9 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 then nothing.
But I m not going to give up. Install and repeat.

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ASUS TX/97-X Socket7
AMD K6 3Dnow 450Mhz running 499mhz AirCooled55Celsius  
mem. 96Mb. no case

CD BOOT works fine..

hypnoz / finland
The Ultimate Boot Cd does look really cool,  however you don't need the cd to wipe out your harddrive.  Boot up DSL from cd then try this from the command line:

#sudo shred -z -v /dev/hda  

This will overwrite /dev/hda 25 times then leave nothing but zeros :)  or add -n1 and it will overwrite only 1 time (a lot faster),  eg:

#sudo shred -z -n1 -v /dev/hda

original here.