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HardDiskInstallation

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, 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}}}

...-(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!