HD Install :: Can't get it to boot
hi
i did a cd install on an old computer and it worked brilliantly - love it.
But i am now doing a floppy and network hardrive install and when it comes to starting from the Dsl boot disk it fails and i get:
INIT: No inittab file found
INIT: Entering runlevel 2
INIT: no more processes left in this level.
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The install stuff is on a harddrive so it should run from it, i don't particularly want to start dsl from there - i would prefer to just install it properly to a harddrive if that were possible.
i am a noobie
thanks
It is now running from harddrive disk image.
i re-partitioned the hardrive so that the image ended up on hda1 which i read somewhere was important. But still had the same inittab problem.
then tried, with frugal boot disk, booting with dsl mem=16M as this is a 486 laptop and it seems to have worked!
i have a blank desktop with an X that moves slowly.
now i just have to work out how to start a terminal and try and get a HD install.
Stared at the screen for a bit and moved the mouse about a bit but eventually had to turn off the power.
restarted using dsl 2 mem=16M which got me to a command prompt but with an unhappy harddrive ( because i had just turned off the power)
Ran e2fsck -n /dev/hda1 to see if it needed fixing, it didn't but had to fix the other partitions with -p.
About to try hd install
FYI, if you want a leaner X-Windows system, try booting with:
dsl mem=16M noicons nousb noagp
And see if you can run some applications from the "Right-Click" main menu like dillo.
Also, setting up a DOS swapfile or a Linux swap partition should help things out quite a bit, even in text mode.
thanks you.
wiped everything and started again, booting with
dsl mem=16M noicons nousb noagp
and got a desktop. It was very slow but i was able to switch desktop styles to minimal which was much faster - the mouse almost kept up. tired to start a few programs beginning with mozilla which was probably a bit rash, nothing really worked after that not even getting to a terminal so i had to pull the plug in the end.
Restarted anddid a harddrive install which failed to boot.
wiped everything and started again, booting with
dsl 2 mem=16M noicons nousb noagp noscsi
(but can i do nocd too or would it be nocdrom?)
to try the harddrive install from comand line.
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