openmamba flash 1GB - hard disk installation instructions ========================================================= NOTE: the installation procedure described is not yet fully functional; please, follow these guidelines only if you know what you are doing. WARNING: THIS INSTALLATION MAY MAKE YOUR DUAL BOOT SYSTEM NO LONGER BOOTABLE, BE CAREFUL. 0) Boot your computer from openmamba flash, when the system is up open a terminal window (konsole) 1) Use qtparted to resize/create the destination partition 2) Format the device : mkfs.ext3 /dev/ 3) Copy the filesystem from flash to disk: mkdir /media/install mount /dev/ /media/install cp -ax / /media/install 4) Make initrd chroot /media/install mkinitrd boot/initramfs-`uname -r`.img `uname -r` -f 5) Install grub on your hard disk master boot record grub-install /dev/ --root-directory=/media/install 6) CHECKME: If your disk device is /dev/sdb you probably have to fix grub device map (/media/install/boot/grub/device.map) #7) Create root device symlink (needed?) # #rm -f /media/install/dev/root #ln -s /dev/ /media/install/dev/root 7) add root partition to /etc/fstab 8) Create grub configuration file for chainloading other OS's like this: /etc/grub/conf.d/other: title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 9) Execute grub-update chroot /media/install/ grub-update 10) That's all, now reboot and enjoy!