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Topic: IBM TP 240, triumphs and tribulations

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AwPhuch

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Posted: Oct. 21 2004,16:35

Oh crap...it appears we have forum bots going nuts!!!

How many primary/logical partitions do you have...Linux only likes a max of 4 primary partitions on any one physical drive

sudo cfdisk to see (dont change nothing just see what they list as)

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Posted: Oct. 21 2004,21:28

I was intending to have 3 partitions:

hda1: windows 2k (FAT32)
hda2: General File area (FAT32) [so linux can access it)
hda?: Linux file area (type 82?)

So its one primary partition and two secondaries on the logical partition. This setup has worked for me before for dual boot HD installs of DSL. Despite Ke4nt1's suggestion of running 'mke2fs /dev/hda?', the frugal install doesn't like it. Otherwise the mount app and all the other DSL stuff can read it.

Does the partition for frugal install have to be clean, ie no directories

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libretto

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Posted: Nov. 09 2004,14:26

Well its been a while, been doing alot of other stuff so no time for playing with DSL. And to add inconvienice the win2k partition has just died. So I think this laptop may have to be fully DSL :;):

Just hope all the relevant APCI stuff will/can be made to work correctly :S

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libretto

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Posted: Nov. 26 2004,21:57

Finally got a frugal install going!

Appears 0.8.4 picks up my soundcard and got the PSK31 package to work! :cool:

Will have to see how bad the audio quality out is! Just glad it works! :laugh:

Now to get used to frugal installs and file/mydsl backup/restores :;):

EXTRA:

Despite he soundchipset being detected, I mydsl the alsadebs package. Now if I mute all the unused ports (PC speaker the worst), the PSK31 might be reasonable out to TX with! Will have to check RX tomorrow.

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