Hard Drive Installer Needed!

Hi all!

This is such a wonderful project! It brings new life back to so many old computers and laptops around the world using a GenToo based distro.

But we desperatly need a hard drive installer for the project.

If anyone is able to help speed up the project please step forward.

I myself have three old laptops sitting here desperatly awaiting a revision of Papug / GenToo with hard drive installer.

Please please please, help with this.

~Ken - vk4akp@yahoo.com.au~

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Hi Ken,

I was chasing for contributors to help me on this subject but I don't have a positive answer for the moment. I promise to work on this subject this autumn even if the next PapugLinux release will have only this new feature. I think it's now the top most important subject to deal with as hardware support and base packaging seem to be coherent.

Regards,

-sb

Hi, I absolutly agree, I'm trying to revive some old computers here and this seems to be the only distro that works 'out of the box' on them. Will be anxiously checking back here. Regards, Cloud

Greetings all. I tested the PapugLinux 07.2pre today.

I tried installing it on my old P233MMX ThinkPad Laptop.

I got as far as setting up the partitioins, and installing all the software, also the grub loader.

All looked very good, but when I re-booted, after the grub screen I just get

Kernel /boot/kernel-...... etc etc.

`Error 15: FILE NOT FOUND'

So I guess I have found the first bug unfortunatly.

I would also suggest setting the default keyboard to USA in the software as it is the most common world wide. ( This had me going for a while, wondering why it wouldn't accept the password for SU, LOL ) :)

My install was to hda2 & hda3 (Swap) as I had a W2K as my first partition.

Looking forward to a sollution. It is fantastic to see this project heading to a Hard drive install.

Many poor countries with old hardware are really going to benefit from this wonderful project now it is heading towards having a hard drive installable .ISO .

Keep up the great work!

~Ken - VK4AKP~

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Hi,

I think this is due to your first partition using W2K, we may have to tune the grub.conf fie. I presume you were running the grub install by 'install-boot /dev/hda2 /dev/hda' (if so, I also imagine that w2k is not booting anymore, we'll fix it later).

Start your computer with PapugLinux LiveCD, then open a shell and su to root.

#mkdir /mnt/install

#mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/install

#vi /mnt/install/boot/grub/grub.conf -> then change all (hd0,0) by (h0,1)

#umount /dev/hda2

Then reboot, ... and let me know.

-sb

Hi, I posted B4 to say that it all works now TNX. but I don't see the post here.

Anyhow, I have another question.

On Gentoo & Sabayon distro's my network cards are detected at boot and I can then configure them.

Yet under Papug, I can not do this.

What is missing or needs to be added?

IF / IWconfig etc is all there in the distro also net-setup. But the OS does not see my card.

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Hi Ken,

I'm happy to see that it works. For network cards, I may need to add kernel modules, can you tell me the type and brand, please.

Cheers,

-sb

 

Hey,

Any updates on hard disk install?