HD Install :: Need advice for HD install strategy...



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poorman*
I thought about doing a floppy install, but it'd be -alot- of work.  That might be my last resort.

I read about the network install, I'm not sure how to modify it for my needs.

What I -do- already have is the system up and dual booting W95 / DSL 0.92, so I was wondering if maybe I could:

1.  Boot up DSL 0.92
2.  Wipe the W95 partition
3.  Create 2 new partitions, one 64mb and another to hold the rest of the space as "empty".
4.  Download the latest version of DSL to the new 64mb partition.
5.  Modify Lilo to boot the new version of DSL
6.  Reboot to new DSL
7.  Wipe all partitions but the 64mb DSL partition and create one big new one for DSL installation
8.  Do a HD install of new DSL

What do you think?  Any other ideas?  If it didn't work, then the fall back plan would be to do a floppy only install?
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poorman*


I don't want to do a poorman's install.  I want to repartition the entire HD and reformat the whole thing (2 gb) for Linux/DSL (Ext2).

What I -really- wish I could do is what I used to do in my old "DOS" days, where I'd boot up a floppy and use it to partition and format a HD.  In the process, "SYS" would be installed on the HD so it became bootable.

Anyway of doing this in Linux / DSL?
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do a poormans install

resize your poormans partition with the gnu parted mydsl extension

use newly created free space for your dsl full hd install

finally, after rebooting into your hd installed system you can delete your poormans partition and reuse the space as a linux swap partition.
Ok, remember I can only boot from floppy or HD, and in order to use the CD drive I have to boot from HD first...

So lemme see if I understand you:
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do a poormans install

I have 2 partitions now:  a big W95 partition (hda1) and a 300mb DSL partition (hda2).  So if I recall correctly, a poorman's install is copying the contents of /knoppix/ to the hard drive.  So are you suggesting that I create a new small partition (removing hda1 and hda2) thus creating say a 100mb hda partition?

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resize your poormans partition with the gnu parted mydsl extension
 So boot from floppy, run from poorman's install and turn the empty 1.9 gb of disk into 1 big linux partition (hda2 ext2), right?

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use newly created free space for your dsl full hd install

Ok, I think I've got ya.

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finally, after rebooting into your hd installed system you can delete your poormans partition and reuse the space as a linux swap partition

Ok, I use the install script to install DSL to hda2, then I reformat hda1 to a linux swap partition, right?

Ok, I think I can do this with my existing DSL cd (0.92), but if I want to upgrade, is there a way to do this with apt-get?  (ie apt-get dist-upgrade)?
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