User Feedback :: my dsl experience
Ok..just did a freash install of dsl to the dx2..did not add any of the great dsl extensions..did a ppp config and clicked firefox....the first time it opened and I opened pppdial..when I clicked dial..freeze
I rebooted and clicked firefox..it started to open and freeze.
..what is very odd is that I installed dsl to the dx2 many times and used firefox to download all the extensions several times before I learned how to store them.
the freeze should not be happening...
does anyone have any thoughts on why this is occuring.
When you get problems like this all of a sudden, first thing I think is hardware failure. It could be heat, maybe from bad air circulation. It could be fried or improperly seated RAM. Could be a bad harddrive.
Or it could just be that your ram is being sucked up. Did you use swap last time, and maybe not use it this time?
I had a similar problem (than your freezing). The problem was that I played a lot with 1 install of DSL and finally got X to stop working...
So I installed DSL to the same partition overwriting everything and X still didn't start. Then I tried DSL from another partition (previously installed, worked before) and X didn't work in it either 
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Then I booted the machine and looked really closely everything that was going on when booting. And noticed a line saying something like: "restoring from /dev/hda3" !!
Ahaa! DSL was restoring the screwed up configuration from hda3 ! So that is why no version of DSL worked in my machine! IF you haven't specified where DSL should restore the previous setting and (booting)DSL notices that some partition has the DSL restore file it uses that!? (strange)
So I booted with knoppix or blueLinux and removed the file from hda3 and X started working! Booting with DSL didnt help, because if you remove the restore file from hda3 and reboot, the restore file is written again! (maybe removing it and unplugging the computer without shutting down would have done the trick..)
Your problem could be similar. ie DSL automatically restores the bad settings from somewhere..
Auto restore has been a feature with DSL for a very long time.
One can always boot with the norestore option.
And to not load any extensions use the base option.
In fact, it is always a good idea to look at a new release by booting it with:
dsl base norestore
Wasn't the special version of Firefox installed in DSL compiled for i586 use?
If this is so, it won't work with a 486 CPU. Pentium is the minimum.
However, other web browsers may be supported. Opera, Dillo or Links perhaps?
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