HD Install :: DSL 0.7.2 HD install no workie



Greetings,

I am unable to perform a normal DSL 0.7.2 HD install on one of my old PCs.  Here's my hardware configuration:

Tyan Tomcat III motherboard
Cyrix P166 CPU (P1-compatible, although Win XP won't install on this PC because MickySoft claims it's a 486  :p )
128 MB RAM
IDE Primary Master = CD-ROM drive, Primary Slave = Maxtor 7 GB HD

I used Partition Magic 8 boot floppies to set up my partitions as follows:

hdb1 = 305.9 MB, FAT16, Win 95 OSR2 w/NTLDR as boot manager
Sectors 63 to 626,534 (CHS 0-1-1 to 38-254-63)
This partition is used mainly for disaster recovery and to hold the boot manager

hdb5 = 5,263.5 MB, FAT32, Win 2k Pro
Sectors 626,598 to 11,406,149 (CHS 39-1-1 to 709-254-63)
This is my main work partition

hdb6 = 502.0 MB, FAT16, Win NT 3.51 Workstation
Sectors 11,406,213 to 12,434,309 (CHS 710-1-1 to 773-254-63)

hdb7 = 604.0 MB, Ext2, DSL-ready
Sectors 12,434,373 to 13,671,314 (CHS 774-1-1 to 850-254-63)


I have copied both the HD MBR and hdb1's boot sector to files for safekeeping.  I'd like to put LILO on hdb7 and keep NTLDR as my boot manager - assuming I get that far.

The DSL 0.7.2 CD boots fine, although I must specify video mode 0 (80 x 25) "Local APIC #0 not detected" as well as mouse location (PS/2 port) and video resolution and color depth.

Once on the DSL desktop, in xterm, I type "sudo dsl-hdinstall" and specify hdb7 as the target partition.  I get:

Warning: ignoring extra data in partition table 6 (3 times)
Warning: invalid flag 0x395e of partition table 6 will be corrected by w(rite)
Sorry system has not detected a linux partition.

Hmmm, maybe I just have a "Sorry system"?   :D

Next, I type "sudo cfdisk" and get:

FATAL ERROR: Cannot read disk drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk

Finally, I type "sudo fdisk -l" and get:

Device  Boot  Start  End  Blocks  Id  System
/dev/hdb1  *  1  39  313236  6  FAT16
/dev/hdb2     40  851  6522390  5  Extended
/dev/hdb5  *  40  710  5389776  b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hdb6  ?  106306  176659  565108754+  66  Unknown

Emelfm sees all partitions thru hdb7 just fine, and can mount, read, and write any of them.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
weird thought but try it as a standard linux partition as the install process makes it ext2 anyway............. post the result, also are your partritions using all your harddrive some systems require a small amount of free disk for host protected info....just suggestions?
I did try leaving hdb7 as unallocated space before booting the DSL CD, thinking that I could maybe create and format the partition from within DSL, but still no go.  Cfdisk still can't see the HD at all, and fdisk still shows goofy info for hdb6.
This has been discussed before. There is a known issue with 0.7.2. It is fixed in 0.7.3
Okay.  I'll download 0.7.3 and give that a whirl.
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