Installing SMGL using user contributed "chroots".
You can download prepared "chroot" of SMGL, then put it on your USB Flash, boot using some live-CD (ie. Ubuntu) - must be distro with recent kernel, so that it can detect at least your HDD drivers.
Partition new HDD (don't forget to mark active partition and make swap partition)
fdisk /dev/sda
Format selected partition and swap
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 mkswap /dev/sda2
Mount HDD and Flash
mkdir /mnt/chroot mkdir /mnt/flash mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/chroot mount /dev/uba1 /mnt/flash cd /mnt/chroot
Unpack
tar xvfj /mnt/flash/chroot_xyz.tar.bz2
Prepare for chrooting and chroot
mount --bind /dev /mnt/chroot/dev mount -t proc none /mnt/chroot/proc chroot /mnt/chroot/
Now you're working in chrooted SMGL. You should recompile kernel (only if the one in "chroot" is too old for you, if you choose right "chroot" you dont need to do it)
get_kernel_source_somewhere, somehow cp kernel_source.tar.gz /usr/src cd /usr/src/ tar xvfz kernel_source.tar.gz cd kernel_source make menuconfig make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinubz-2.6.26
Edit fstab (set swap partition etc.) and setup boot loader
vi /etc/fstab vi /etc/lilo.conf lilo
And you're done, remove boot-cd, reboot and pray for boot loader menu to show.
List of downloadable chroots:
WARNING: These chroots are really old. Some features will not work. Do not complain if used.
x86 0.9.6 chroot [2006-02-24] -download (SMGL 0.9.6 x86 chroot with some old kernel)
x86_64 chroot [2006-07-30] - download (SMGL x86_64 chroot, also very old)
k8_32 chroot [2008-09-27] - download (SMGL k8_32 chroot - with kernel 2.6.26, gcc 4.3.2, glibc 2.7, etc. lastest packages versions to date 2008-09-27 - warning!! - everything optimized for k8_32/AMD, may not work on Intel CPUs)