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Topic: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDT, 0.8.1 Installation

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DaCuBaN

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,00:16

Cheers folks, but the fun doesn't stop here

I'll try and throw dsl-hdinstall on hda1 after work tomorrow, see how that goes. Gave it a shot tonight, and returned to the same segmentation error, so I wiped the drive to start again. I'm assuming it's another memory issue, in which case is the hd-install not carrying across my switches from the original boot?

hda3 is ready to go too - I might just boot from floppy and whack in tohd: This was how I initially setup, but for some reason I decided to wipe it and start again. I could have done the hdinstall from there, but that didn't occur to me until too late :laugh:

On general performance, given the puny amount of ram this thing has, I'm quite impressed. It's struggling a little running from the cd (it's only 6x), but on the hd it was surprisingly responsive. :cool:

Afterwards, time to get it some form of connection and to get this thing mobile again

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,21:20

More again:

I've redone all the partitions on the drive, into a hda1=swap, hda2=ext and hda3=ext2. When booting from the floppy and executing userdef dsl tohd=/dev/hda2 I receive the following error:

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Accessing DSL image at /dev/scd0...
df: /cdrom2: can't find mount point
Copying DSL image failed. Not enough free space on /dev/hda2. Found: 0k Need: 52871k

Yet, so long as I don't specify dsl tohd=/dev/hda2, it will boot fine (but obviously, only from the CD). fdisk -l shows hda1 as 82, hda2 as 83 and hda3 as 83, and after mkfs.ext2 on /dev/hda2 and hda3, all fsck'd fine.

Overcame the memory error ('dsl' was overriding my 'userdef' boot in syslinux.cfg on the bootfloppy) by adding mem=16M to the 'dsl' kernel switches and vga=788 to force 800x600, so I'm back in X.

I can't understand though: why would firstly lilo refuse to accept mem=16M after the hdinstall, and secondly, why would the dsl boot disk think all my partitions have 0k free space even straight after I've fdisk'd and mkfs'd them? Am I forgetting something simple? :angry:

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Posted: Oct. 12 2004,21:31

After partitioning and running mke2fs, did you reboot, so the new
partition tables would be re-read correctly at boottime?

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DaCuBaN

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Posted: Oct. 13 2004,00:23

Yes; I can run dsl-hdinstall without difficulty, and I've verified that the files are be copied across: It's definitely working. It only fails to write when I boot from the floppy and at the boot prompt: dsl tohd=/dev/hda2

Anyway, I rebooted from the cd and edited lilo.conf to include mem=16M - no change. I'm stumped...

It's late here anyway, work in the morning. Hopefully I'll get a chance tomorrow...

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Posted: Oct. 14 2004,19:07

Haven't had a chance to look at it yet, been too busily involved in the heady world of wage-slavery

Is there somewhere I enter the kernel switches other than in the lilo.conf when booting an hd install? I'm at a bit of a loss (again! :laugh:

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Last shift tomorrow, with any luck I can have a few hours to dig around on Saturday - we all know that Friday nights are always a write of, productively speaking :cool:

Now, I'm not desperate to get it on the drive for any reason other than the fact that the floppy drive in this unit is external - meaning it's another peice of hardware I'd have to carry round.

Not ideal, I'm sure you'd agree. I can copy the files across from the cd to the disk partition, and the thing will boot fine (from the floppy) - Is there perhaps some way around this?

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