I have known DSL for a long time (say since mid 2005 ..). But i had never thought of it as anything more than a os on a cd to be used when my system hiccups.
I am in delhi, and am void of access to any system sparing my office pc here. and that to i can't install anything on it. So now me being far away from linux was sort of taking a toll on me. so i decided to install linux on vmware as it was already there in my machine.
Initially i had tried to install it, though everything went smoothly, but it did not work or to be precise it did not boot into the newly installed system. Then on further digging around i found it did not handle scsi disks so i had to set it to IDE. I forgot where i had found the info, you will get it with a simple google. i am too lazy to go around. but it was inthe dsl forums. That much i remember.
i will say what i had done.
First i had created a virtual IDE disk for 3 GB.
then after booting into the ISO, i went into terminal and became root.
now i ran cfdisk, and created two partitions 1 gb swap and rest as ext3 bootable.
then i started the installation with the command dsl-hdinstall. and went ahead with the default at everyplace.
after 10 mins it was there. i was asked to reboot and it went right into the hd boot. now things were working fine. Now i am planning to install jdk (which should not be a problem), mysql and then dimension, and take it for a test run...
I am in delhi, and am void of access to any system sparing my office pc here. and that to i can't install anything on it. So now me being far away from linux was sort of taking a toll on me. so i decided to install linux on vmware as it was already there in my machine.
Initially i had tried to install it, though everything went smoothly, but it did not work or to be precise it did not boot into the newly installed system. Then on further digging around i found it did not handle scsi disks so i had to set it to IDE. I forgot where i had found the info, you will get it with a simple google. i am too lazy to go around. but it was inthe dsl forums. That much i remember.
i will say what i had done.
First i had created a virtual IDE disk for 3 GB.
then after booting into the ISO, i went into terminal and became root.
now i ran cfdisk, and created two partitions 1 gb swap and rest as ext3 bootable.
then i started the installation with the command dsl-hdinstall. and went ahead with the default at everyplace.
after 10 mins it was there. i was asked to reboot and it went right into the hd boot. now things were working fine. Now i am planning to install jdk (which should not be a problem), mysql and then dimension, and take it for a test run...
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