Installing DSL to HDD from another HDD
Hey.
I have an old PC that's barely worth calling a PC. It has 16MB of ram, two hard drives (1 GB and 4 GB), 120MHZ processor, an integrated video card and some ISA cards. I would like to install DSL on it as it seems to be pretty much the best choice I could find for a computer that fits these specs. The problem is that it doesn't seem to detect the CDROM so I can't boot any liveCD. The floppy works tho. Since I have two different HDDs, I thought I could just use the 1GB one to store all the installation files for DSL and boot from it as I would from a liveCD. The thing is I don't seem to know how to create a boot disk like that. Could someone please point out a proper way to create such bootable HDD with DSL installation files on it? Should the the files inside ISO be extracted directly to the HDD? Should the HDD file system be ext3 or fat16? What additional boot loader needs to be set up and how? Thanks. |
What you might want is wha's called the "poorman's install"
It involves using a script. frugal_lite.sh ( http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...frugal_lite.sh ) Note- Code:
There are currently four types of DSL.... ( http://damnsmalllinux.org/network-install.html ) From the how-to answer #3 Code:
Follow-up Question: Will it do a standard hard drive install ? ( http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-works-714322/ ) |
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