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Hard Disk Installation

30 June 2007 - 4:08pm — delboy

Pure:dyne Hard Disk Installation

Assumptions:

We assume you are using a standard PC (i386 Model) on which to install Pure:dyne onto, we have had some trouble installing to the newer SATA drives and the New Dell Optiplex 320 in particular, which will not boot despite being install with PATA (Parallel ATA) Drive, your drive should be a ATA compatible drive and not a SATA drive as in the later PC's available on the market. We also assume that you have split the hard drive into three or four separate partitions, that a previous installation of Ubuntu is present and that your partitions table looks similar to below.

Mount Size
 		Description
Comment
/boot 512Mb Boot sector This partition holds the files necessary to boot the Linux filesystem ext2.
swap 512Mb Swap Depending on system memory not always required but better with it than
without it.
/ 20Gb Root of the filesystem
not the account root		 Ubuntu and Dyne root filesystem where all the system files go
/home Whatever is left User space

The above configuration has been adopted in order that if the Linux Operating System if this need be replace or updated, that this could easily be achieved without formating the whole of the hard drive and deleting the contents of the last partition, which would be used for /home.

  1. Install Ubuntu to the hard disk, these will use all four partitions for "/boot", "swap", "/" and "/home". You will of course need to manually edit your partitions during the Install process as the default may cause problems later.
  2. Remove and reboot your system to check all is ok and that the Ubuntu OS runs correctly
  3. Reboot again this time with Pure:dyne in the bootable CD or Dvd player
  4. Not all versions of Pure:dyne will successfully run so try a few versions before giving up
  5. When display has an X window with a Grey background Pure:dyne is now running successfully
  6. Open XTerm from the Menu
  7. In the console type "su" in lowercase this changes your default user to root
  8. Navigate your way to the following location /mnt/hd1/cd1
  9. Type "ls" to check that the contents of the CDRom are available, if you booted from the live CD they will be but check anyway.
  10. Locate the dyne directory
  11. Copy the dyne directory from this location to that of what would be the "/" partition of the harddrive or partition 3 if following the advice above. Use this command "cp -r /mnt/cd1/dyne /mnt/hd1/2"
  12. The sawp partition is not an accessible mountable partition and for that reason will not be found as a drive in /mnt/hd1, only mountable drives are listed in /mnt/hd1 directory and numbered 1, 2 and 3. 1 is the "/boot" (partition 1), 2 is the "/" (root not swap, partition 3) and 3 is the "/home" (partition 4)
  13. You should still be in the directory /mnt/cd1 check this using "pwd" which stands for "print working directory", type the following
    "vi dyne/grub.conf" find the section indicated with the # -- cut here -- and copy it.
  14. Open a new terminal window using XTerm from the menu type "su" for Super User mode
  15. Type the following command "vi /mnt/hd1/1/grub/menu.lst" (Remember we are using the mount point of boot partition so do not need to specify "boot")
  16. Paste the copied section after the savedefault entry towards the bottom of the page
  17. Save this file and exit
  18. Using the console again type the following "mkdir /mnt/hd1/1/dyne"
  19. Now copy linux and initrd using this command "cp /mnt/cd1/dyne/linux /mnt/hd1/1/dyne"
    & "cp /mt/cd1/dyne/initrd /mnt/hd1/1/dyne" this copies the kernel system file necessary to boot your Pure:dyne system
  20. Thats it now when you reboot your PC when you see grub loading press escape key this shows the menu and select Pure:dyne from menu

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