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

As of version 1.2, yes! This 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 got ext2/3, reiserfs, NTFS, all kind of 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 that contains the dyne/ subdirectory, therefore ejecting the dyne:bolic cd and booting up the image from harddisk. Easy, ain't it?

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

You can, as long as you are using a bootloader such as GRUB or LILO (beeing very careful) and dedicating a partition for dynebolic (please refer to the [http://lab.dyne.org/Nesting Nesting] faq in order to do that), in which, as stated you will have to copy the whole dyne/ directory off the cd:

• Grub configuration:

Add the following to your grub.conf file:

• {{{title Dynebolic 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}}}

...-(the "kernel" line must not be wrapped up)-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...)

As for the vga option, please refer to the chart further on, substituting the ZZZZZ number with the hexadecimal 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.

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

Colour Chart:

Is it possible to use a special partition with the iso on it?

I want to boot dyne:bolic on my hard drive with the iso image mounted, I know this is doable, I just need a script or documentation, where can I find that?

See http://freaknet.org/martin/dynebolic/ for some notes and helper scripts. --rurban

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