User Feedback :: Install hangs up at "xauth: creating new authority

I downloaded and tried to install DSL images dsl-3.2.iso and dsl-3.2-syslinux.iso. They both stop installing and hang up at:
xauth:creating new authority file /home/dsl/xXauthority
xauth:creating new authority file /home/dsl/xXauthority
It says that twice like above.

I had first wiped the hard drive using Autoclave 0.3 to get rid of WindowsXP.

Then set up 2 partitions:
hda1 is Linux type 83, 5 GB space for main program
hda2 is Linux type 82, 1.1 GB space for swap
Does it matter which one is first on the hard drive?

I made them both xf3 types. Not sure if that is correct.

Older Toshiba 2595 CDT Laptop
196MB RAM
6.1 GB HDD
399 MHz Processor(Really 400 MHz)

You might want to read my post about getting DSL to run on a Thinkpad 560e. I had a similar problem and found a way to fix it.

Here's the page:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....ad+560e

It still does not work. I repartitioned and reformatted to make a 5GB fat16 and 1GB fat16 for swap. It still hangs in the same place.

What is vfat and how do I do it. I am a newbie to Linux.

Thanks

By vfat I mean fat16, which is the standard format for DOS/Windows file systems.

But I don't think that has anything to do with your problem. My guess is that your laptop needs XF86_SVGA and an appropriate XF86Config file.

Am I correct in assuming that you have already tried the various options given by the xsetup program? Do you end up with a funtioning text-based linux operating system? That is, do you end up with a dsl@box prompt?

Hi,

I am having exactly the same problem with installing DSL on an old Toshiba Tecra 8300. This is after booting with the nopcmcia option. Did you finally get a solution for this issue.

Strange thing is that I had a perfectly working Fedora core 2 installation on there before. I wiped the whole disk with GParted and created two partitions, one 5.5Gb ext3 and one 500Mb linux swap file.

Cheers,

Patrick

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