Re: Installing DragonFly

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can try booting a linux live cd, then plugging in the hdd after the bios screen, but before the linux kernel starts running.

cheers
 simon

Colin Adams wrote:
> I couldn't use Windows anything - that is banned from my house.
>
> Equally, I can't use a Linux fdisk (for instance), because I can't
> boot the computer at all if the disk is plugged in.
> If I remove uncable the disk, then I can boot from the DragonFly live
> DVD (or any other live CD/DVD presumably). But then I can't do
> anything to the disk because it isn't plugged in.
>
> 2009/4/15 Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode@fs.ei.tum.de>:
> > I bet this is the "set all bits to one on CHS overflow" thing in fdisk.  I'd
> > really like to know how we are supposed to handle this (better).
> >
> > Colin, sorry for trashing your computer.  I think we are well aware of this
> > issue, but we simply don't know exactly how to deal with it.  Could you
> > maybe use window's fdisk to create a large partition on the drive and then
> > report back how the partition table looks like?  In this case we could
> > adjust our fdisk so that this won't happen again.
> >
> > thanks
> >  simon
> >
> > Colin Adams wrote:
> > > What appears to have happened is that in some way it has trashed my
> > > disk-drive - I can still get the machine to boot from the live CD, but
> > > only if I physically disconnect the hard-disk first.
> > >
> > >
> > > 2009/4/8 Hasso Tepper <hasso@estpak.ee>:
> > > > Colin Adams wrote:
> > > > > Well, if that is the case the ISO should not be available for download
> > > > > - there should be a fixed version.
> > > > Well. It shouldn't be any way fatal, but in general I agree - we should
> > > > release 2.2.1 ASAP, really.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Hasso Tepper