Help Installing 2.12beta to HDD with one type 83 partition
Posted: Wed 15 Nov 2006, 00:08
Hello,
I am trying to install puppy-2.12beta-seamonkey.iso onto a very plain-vanilla machine (AMD 1 GHz, 30G ATA internal HDD, 512M RAM). The machine will be dedicated to puppy for this purpose; there is nothing else on the hard drive (although the hard drive and machine had a previous life...)
I have created the CDROM from the above ISO and I can boot the CD on several machines without difficulty; on the target machine the Xorg/mouse configuration works fine and there are no unusual messages during startup.
In preparation for installation, I have cleared all partitions from the hard drive (which is on /dev/hda) using fdisk, and after having problems, I also tried clearing partitions using:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=1
followed by creating a single root partition using fdisk, 5000 blocks, type 83.
When I boot the puppy CDROM I am entering no command line options; there is no additional USB device (thumb drive, etc.) involved at any point.
Now I proceed to /usr/sbin/puppyinstaller and while it appears to find /dev/hda1 (where I want to install), it is also giving error messages in the console window about ntfs partition not found and so on. Ignoring these messages, it gets as far as offering to set up GRUB (which I want), but GRUB install fails with a dialog box indicating it can't mount /dev/hda1 read-write.
It appears others have succeeded, so I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. I am puzzled about the unexpected references to NTFS (the machine doesn't have any NTFS partitions; there is only one hard drive and it has only the one partition noted.)
Help ?!?
Thanks,
Dave
wb0gaz@hotmail.com
I am trying to install puppy-2.12beta-seamonkey.iso onto a very plain-vanilla machine (AMD 1 GHz, 30G ATA internal HDD, 512M RAM). The machine will be dedicated to puppy for this purpose; there is nothing else on the hard drive (although the hard drive and machine had a previous life...)
I have created the CDROM from the above ISO and I can boot the CD on several machines without difficulty; on the target machine the Xorg/mouse configuration works fine and there are no unusual messages during startup.
In preparation for installation, I have cleared all partitions from the hard drive (which is on /dev/hda) using fdisk, and after having problems, I also tried clearing partitions using:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=1024 count=1
followed by creating a single root partition using fdisk, 5000 blocks, type 83.
When I boot the puppy CDROM I am entering no command line options; there is no additional USB device (thumb drive, etc.) involved at any point.
Now I proceed to /usr/sbin/puppyinstaller and while it appears to find /dev/hda1 (where I want to install), it is also giving error messages in the console window about ntfs partition not found and so on. Ignoring these messages, it gets as far as offering to set up GRUB (which I want), but GRUB install fails with a dialog box indicating it can't mount /dev/hda1 read-write.
It appears others have succeeded, so I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. I am puzzled about the unexpected references to NTFS (the machine doesn't have any NTFS partitions; there is only one hard drive and it has only the one partition noted.)
Help ?!?
Thanks,
Dave
wb0gaz@hotmail.com