tizwaz

I have a toshiba satelite laptop, (old) and I would like to install my damm small linux onto it.
I have millenium on the laptop now so I would like to do a dual boot if possible, in the DSL there are scripts to install and make boot floppies but when I run cfdisk I get an error, it cannot find HD, even though it is mounted???

I am a newbie to linux so could someone please give me a poke in the right direction to be able to do this.

blastinonyall

If you want to dual-boot, you will have to partition your hard drive. You should shrink the partition with win ME.
Once you shrink the partition with ME, Boot from the DSL cd.
Open the terminal and type:
sudo -s
(press enter)
cfdisk /dev/hda
(press enter)
This will open up the partitioner.
If you shrunk you ME partition correctly, there will be a selection called "unpartitioned space."
Highlight "unpartitioned space" and click new
create a new partition in the unpartitioned space of about 128 mb (make it primary and at the beginning)
Now choose "type"
Press the space bar and type: 82
(press enter)
Now choose the rest of the "unpartitioned space"
Choose "New" and create a new partition, using whatever memory is left on your hard drive.
Now choose "type"
Press the space bar and type: 83
(press enter)
Now choose "Boot" to make this partition bootable
Choose "write" to write the changes you made to your hard drive and then choose "exit"
After you exit, type: sudo reboot
your computer will then restart.
Boot from the DSL cd again
Now open the terminal
now type in: mkswap /dev/hda2
(press enter)
Now type: swapon /dev/hda2
(press enter)
now type in: dsl-hdinstall
(press enter)
This will start the install.
Make sure you tell it to install to hda3
choose the grub bootloader and say yes when it asks if you have windows on hda1

Hope this helps