• Docking

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What is docking?

Docking is installing dyne:bolic to your harddrive without interfering with any other operating systems on your computer.

Is it possible to install dynebolic on a hard disk? If so, what filesystems are supported?

From version 1.2 and later, yes! The procedure is called "docking", and all you have to do is copy the entire dyne/ directory and subdirectories to the root directory of your hard disk (using Winblows for example that would result in C:\dyne\), whether you have ext2/3, reiserfs, NTFS, DOS FAT, BeOS, or *BSD. Hehe! Afterwards you have to boot up normally using your dyne:bolic cd, which will automatically recognize the harddisk partition containing the dyne/ subdirectory, therefore ejecting the dyne:bolic cd and booting up the image from harddisk. Easy, ain't it?

If you'd rather install dynebolic on a USB drive, check out DyneOnUsb.

How can i install GRUB/LILO and be still able to boot on Windowz ??

In most cases, GRUB will detect your Windows partition automatically. Before installing itself to the hard drive (technically the Master Boot Record), GRUB will try to detect all the operating systems that exist on your computer and show you the list of OSes found. If all of them are found, you can install grub without any problem. But remember, ALWAYS BACKUP THINGS YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE!!

If GRUB cannot automatically discover your Windows partition, check the /dyne/grub.conf file, and copy the lines related to Windows into your /boot/grub/menu.lst or /boot/grub/grub.conf file and uncomment them (remove the # that precedes each line).

What if I don't want to use the cd?

As long as you are using a bootloader such as GRUB or LILO (being very careful) and having dedicated a partition to dyne:bolic (please refer to the Nesting faq in order to do that), you will have to copy the whole dyne/ directory off the cd:

GRUB configuration:

Add the following to your grub.conf or menu.lst file (located usualy in /boot/grub/):

• For Dynebolic 1.x:

• title Dynebolic
  root (hdX,Y)
  kernel (hdX,Y)/dyne/Linux root=/dev/ram0 rw load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_start=0 vga=ZZZZZ max_loop=128
  initrd (hdX,Y)/dyne/initrd.gz

• For Dynebolic 2.5.1:

• title Dynebolic
  root (hdX,Y)
  kernel (hdX,Y)/dyne/2618ck1d.krn root=/dev/ram0 rw load_ramdisk=1 vga=ZZZZZ max_loop=64
  initrd (hdX,Y)/dyne/initrd.gz

...where X=harddisk and Y=partition where your dyne/ directory is (for example (hd0,0) would mean first hardisk, first partition; (hd1,0) second harddisk, first partition; (hd0,1) first harddisk, second partition and so on... - take care - in case of extended partitions, hda5 is (hd0,4), hda6 is (hd0,5) hdb4 is (hd1,3) and so on...) If your browser wraps up lines, be careful to add only four lines to your grub.conf: the first one starts with "title", the second one with "root", the third one with "kernel" and the fourth one with "initrd".

As for the "vga" option refer to the chart further on and act accordingly:

• For Dynebolic 1.x:

Substitute the ZZZZZ number with the hexadecimal number of your choice.

• For Dynebolic 2.5.1:

Substitute the ZZZZZ number with the hexadecimal or decimal number of your choice.

LILO configuration:

• 1.Add the following to your /etc/lilo.conf file:

• image = /Path.Of.Mounted.Dyne.Directory/dyne/linux
               label = dyne:bolic
               root = /dev/ram0
               initrd = /Path.Of.Mounted.Dyne.Directory/dyne/initrd.gz
               append = "max_loop=128"
               read-write
               vga = ZZZ

• ..where Path.Of.Mounted.Dyne.Directory is where your dyne directory resides (in my case, since I mount the /dev/hda4 partition containing the dyne/ directory in /mnt/dynebolic, that would result in image = /mnt/dynebolic/dyne/linux and initrd = /mnt/dynebolic/dyne/initrd.gz accordingly)

  As for the vga option, please refer to the chart further on, substituting the ZZZ number with the decimal number of your choice.

  2.Run lilo -t (test), and if lilo didn't show errors, run lilo and reboot.

And that's it! You now have a working dynebolic hd install without the need to boot from cd!

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Created on 27-10-2003 by Tommy Drum for the community; please update, correct & contribute!