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:D  :p  :O  :laugh: I got it installed!! Did the copy to /ramdisk/home/dsl . Then typed /ramdisk/home/dsl/dsl-hdinstall , hda5 & BINGO. I tried to cancel out the 83 lines with no luck, so I deleted all of them. Install lilo & rebooted. Had a boo-boo with the login, root & password. I'll try to correct it. If not?? I'll reformat the drive & try again. I had to install 's' standard. The enhanced gave me the following lines:

Creating filesystem ext2 on /dev/hda5 enhanced... (blue type)
An error occurred while creating the filesystem  (red type)
Some messages from mkfs:   (white)
mkfs.ext2: bad blocks count - enhanced   (white)

Somebody else can say what that means. I put the color type on the end to help. Well, I'm started. :D  Still have to worry about a new modem. This old US Robotics/3COM 56K Voice PCI won't work for anything but windows. Wish me luck & send me pointers.
Quote (cbagger01 @ Sep. 23 2004,12:20)
What version of DSL are you using?

There was a problem with fdisk in some of the DSL 0.7.x versions.

My advice is to do this:

Boot DSL version 0.8.x

Open an xterminal and type:

sudo su
cfdisk


Delete your old hda5,hda6,hda7, and hda8 and create the following parititions:

hda5   BOOTABLE   linux TYPE 83  1200MB  (doesn't need to be exactly 1200)
hda6             linux swap TYPE 82  256MB (doesn't need to be exactly 256)

Write the new partition table and exit the program.

Then open up the Right-Click Fluxbox menu and choose Apps > Tools > Install to Hard Drive

and use hda5  as your installation destination.

Good Luck.

i followed these commands, except that i also had hda1 with windows xp on it, which i left as bootable (so hda5 was not bootable).

now, when my computer boots to GRUB, i no longer see a choice for windows and i really need my windows partition. how can i get the windows option to show during the GRUB loader?
Unfortunately, I don't use GRUB, so I can't provide much help other than to say that you need to edit your grub configuration file to include a line for MS windows and then activate your changes.

original here.