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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Install BL to the HD
  • Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:30:04 +1300

Message from Steven
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Asahel wrote:
>
> I have 32 mb ram and have been looking
> unsuccessfully for the instructions for
> installing to a Linux hard drive partition.
> Could someone please give me a pointer to
> that information?

See readme.txt:

Installing BasicLinux to an ext2 partition (optional)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>From inside BL3, use fdisk and mke2fs to create
a Linux partition on your harddisk. Mount that
partition at /hd and execute install-to-hd.

> The machine is an IBM Aptiva with 200 mHz Pentium
> processor and 3 gigabyte IDE hard drive. A 2 gb
> first primary partition is booting Windows 98, and
> a 1 gb second primary partition /dev/hda2 is set
> to the Linux ext2 file system awaiting BL3.50.

mke2fs /dev/hda2
mount /dev/hda2 /hd
install-to-hd

Note: I recommend you use fdisk to create
a 64mb swap partition (/dev/hda3).

> I intend to dual boot.

With lilo? Or loadlin? Or something else?

Cheers,
Steven




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