HD Install :: DSL freeze when trying to do hd install

I just resently stumbled over this great live distro and I was even more happy
when I read that it could be installed to hd to run from there, it suited me perfect
as I have a semi old Dell CPi 300 latitude laptop without a CD rom drive.

Well happy me, copy over the /KNOPPIX dir to the msdos partition, created the
boot disk from the boot image. Pop in the floppy, and booted, it started up just
fine, played around for a little while, rebooted to get a fresh start and then I went
into a shell, typed sudo su for superuser that went fine, started up cfdisk and
created a new linux partition for DSL and a swap partition coz I only have 64
megs of ram in the laptop. All of that went fine, now rebooted again to enshure that the
new partitions was detected correct, and they was, well allmost, it detected
the swap partition just fine, bu the new linux part it didn't mount,
I thought oh well and manualy mounted it to the mountpoint in /mnt.
After all this I was ready to try out the dsl-hdinstall script, I started it and to
my suprise noticed that it froze up the computer just as it was supposed to
start copying the system files over to the new partition, I have now tried
about 10-15 times in different ways to trick it to actualy not to freeze there.
but it does.
Does anyone have any ideas to what might be the issue here, the partition
it should install to is /dev/hda2 and the swap is on /dev/hda5.
As far as I can see it dies when the script is trying to tar some files and copy them.

Here is the way I do it:
http://www.angelfire.com/ms/telegram/general_howto
This is not a real hard drive install, but you do need to partition your
hard drive into three partitions, one for a swap, one to put /knoppix in
and one for the restore/backup tarball and the filetool.lst file that goes with it.
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I always used hard drives that already have Windows and Linux on them,
in separate partitions, of course, and put the /knoppix folder and the
filetool.sh in the Windows partition, and the backup/restore tarball and
filetool.lst in the Linux partition. My howto has _lots_ of things to do
to get you going on that.
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Essentially, you do not have a partition just for DSL, then.
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Hope this gives you some things to try that work for you!
BTW, the howto also has a method for getting Opera 6.12 downloaded and
installed so you can bring it up from the Menu!
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:;):

Same here it just freezes never copies anything over

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but the new linux part it didn't mount, I thought oh well and manualy mounted it to the mountpoint in /mnt. After all this I was ready to try out the dsl-hdinstall script, I started it and to my suprise noticed that it froze up the computer just as it was supposed to start copying the system files over to the new partition

Two things you might try. The first one is what I suspect is wrong with your attempt.

1. The dsl-hdinstall script does not expect the partition to be mounted. The script only prompts you for which is the target partition. The script then formats that partition and then mounts it so that it can begin the copy. So, please try again, but do not mount the target parition let the script do it.

2. If you still have the system hanging, it might also be a low memory problem. If that is the case then reboot the computer to runlevel 2, i.e., at the boot prompt type knoppix 2 Let the system come up to the root prompt then type dsl-hdinstall

I Have Made The Boot Disk and type in knoppix 2 .

It loads vmlinuz then it says

Boot failed: Please change disks and Press a key to continue

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