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Quote (azurehi @ Jan. 31 2007,12:31)

I am a newbie to linux and have been trying various live cd distros. I have been unable to boot from DSL 3.2 iso, getting "giving up": xinit: no such file...(errno2)... and xinit: no such process...(errno3)... dsl@ tty1[dsl]? blinking cursor. Have amd athlon 64 3000+. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Hey man I've got a similar system with DSL running on it. I'm using this to learn about Linux. I think DSL is a great choice in many respects. Can you supply more detailed error messages?

I'm running the previous version of DSL because this gives me a mini-Debian (Debian has many packages and executables) whereas the 3.2 doesn't support apt-get. I mention this because it begs the question of whether it's really worth it, with a system that capable, to run a mini-distro which can't use Debian repositories for instance?

3.2 DOES support apt-get and even synaptic, but you have to get them through the MyDSL system. Look for dsl-dpkg in the systems area and synaptic in the network area.

In that case what's the problem there's no problem.

Thanks, Ron. I believe DSL is beyond me: after getting the same result again, tried vga=normal; got odd screen with vertical stipes, faint, unreadable text. What I'm looking for is a linux distro in live cd that will make the linux transition easy; pclinuxos will release a 2007 final soon - with the live cd, I have been able to access internet, setup printer, play music, etc., so may go for that later. Don't know where this distro stacks-up in your opinion/ comments, suggestions welcome. Thanks.

I think you should stick to DSL, because it does automatically configure most of your hardware, and it sounds like you just need to configure your vga settings to get a normal display. With regard to setting up my printer and audio, I have had minor setbacks with DSL, but luckily once I had them configured I had no need to configure them ever again.

For the things you mentioned, Dynebolic is a distro I keep on the side always as a LiveCD, for when I want to run multimedia software that's simply too much trouble to load up in DSL (for instance Rosegarden 4). The advantage of Dynebolic is that it sets up ALSA and JACK, and comes with a stack of LADSPA effects, and autoconfigures your devices and everything.

he disadvantage in installing Dynebolic permanently to hard disk is that it bundles hard-to-use rubbish that you will probably never use (e.g. Blender). This means for most people that it wastes a lot of space, because after all what kind of pie-eyed "media activist" (LOL) would be an expert computer-musician AND movie/3D-artist? Furthermore the "Rasta" theme of Dynebolic is very annoying. But you need something like that on a LiveCD sometimes.

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