HD Install :: Frugal install: What if....



Hello,

The CD worked great, recognised my wheel-mouse, and it was easy to get the right xsettings. The pcmcia networkcard, configured with DHCP got me on the net immediately.
The Gui is allright with me, so I decided to do the Frugal install.
I had Debian-Sarge installed, so I had to repartition the HD, and reinstall everything new. I made the recommended 50MB partition, in this case hda6, and wanted to install DSL on this partition.

However, DSL found it not big enough, and writing the Grub she asked me if I had
Windows installed on hda1.

I was surprised, and did not know what to answer.....
I answered yes...

Nothing was found.....

So what I want to know is: If one has Debian-Sarge installed, how big should this Frugal partition realy be, and what must one answer to the Windows question?


M9.
You already have a linux distribution installed, along with a bootloader, yes?  And does it already have windows included?

You can just copy the contents of the CD onto hda6, and add an entry for it in Debian's bootloader.  Seems to me that this would be simpler than going through the DSL install process, overwriting your MBR, and still having to add windows to it.
Dear Mikshaw,

That seems to be a very good idea!
I am going to do that...
About windows... no i do not use windows anymore since more than 8 month's...and I am never going back.
I have several OS on my PC's, SuSE10.0 x86_64 on AMD 2800+, Kanotix (HD-Install from Knoppix 3.9) on a normal P4 1800,32Bits, these two still have Dual boot, because of some functionalities (Games, DIVX) not yet implemented in linux. Debian-Sarge I use on an old Celeron-Mendocino 366 Toshiba laptop, and there is my DSL going to live, together with Sarge.

Since I am in Linux, I can see how small MS-Windows realy is......
I love the configurability every Linux distro has, and when sometimes in windows, I miss my windowmanagers, mirroring my mood....

I think I am realy in 'love' with Linux.....
Hello,

The entry in menu.lst1, should it point to boot.img?
like this:

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
savedefault
boot

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
savedefault
boot

title            Knoppix
root            (hd0,5)
kernel                  /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.31-2-386 root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd           /knoppix/boot.img-2.4.31-2-386
savedefault
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
Sorry,

it should be this:

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
savedefault
boot

title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386
savedefault
boot

       title       DSL
       root       (hd0,5)
       kernel    /boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda6
       initrd      /boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz
       makeactive
       boot
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