HD Install :: Frugal install?



OK - thanks for the replies guys...

I changed a few lines in the frugal install script, in order to get LILO to run 'correctly'.  (I can give you the changes, if you're interested).  

However, while booting DSL, I get a bunch of 'Out of memory' errors....  Since I only have 8MB of RAM, is there a good set of boot options to use?  Nothing appears obvious in the Knoppix cheat codes.  I am not using 'toram', since I assume I don't have enough RAM.

I'm much closer, but not quite there yet!
Did you try:
boot:  knoppix 2
See if it will boot to text mode single user. You said you made three parttions. I am assuming one is swap. Is your swap recognized? I am also assuming that 180MB pcmcia hard drive is not like flash memory drive. Because swap would kill the flash memory device. I am amazed that your notebook will boot off pcmcia slot!
Yeah, I tried that...something like
knoppix 2 noscsi mem=8M

No, it's not a flash card - it's an ATA hard disk, in the form factor of a Type III PCMCIA card.  The Fujitsu is an old pen/tablet PC, and the only spot for a HD is this PCMCIA slot, so it's designed to boot off of it.  It also has two other PCMCIA slots for other cards.

It sees the three partitions, but doesn't appear to recognize anything as swap (but it might not be getting far enough?)   Just for completeness, my three partitions are 1) 80M ext2 = root, 2) 32M swap (ran mkswap on the other laptop), and 3) ~70M ext2 data.

Everything is fine up until "Accessing KNOPIX CDROM at /dev/hda1"...then on the "Setting paths..." line, it all goes to heck.

I get multiple "Out of memory: killed process xxx" errors, and it never actually boots - sometimes it ends up with "INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel."

I get the feeling I'm missing something obvious...
This is what I think is happening to you. Normally, the pcmcia support is not included in the boot floppy image. For example see the mesage under laptops booting from floppy to pcmcia memory device that was recently posted. Now your machine's bios can boot from pcmcia. The bios hands control to the boot.img file. But then the boot.img, which is really just the boot floppy image, has no support for pcmcia, i.e., card manager services, there it bombs on you. Not to simple to fix. As the boot floppy to sucessfully boot into pcmcia memory is really two floppies. You have no floppy drive. You would have to somehow remaster the iso to include a super large boot.img that would include card manager! Anyway, that is what I think is happening to you.
That seems very reasonable.  One of the guys who installed FreeBSD/Debian (here: http://www.the-labs.com/Stylistic/1000.html ) on this machine used a kernel with PCMCIA drivers.

I'll check into using the flash card version...

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.
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