Release Candidates :: DSL-2.2RC1

Quote (MakodFilu @ Feb. 02 2006,12:15)

Quote (blimthorpe @ Feb. 02 2006,08:02)

I finally managed to burn a 2.2RC1 Pen drive (using a very old Compaq computer) from the Live CD. But, on my toshiba laptop, the pendrive will not boot ... it gets to the DSL screen, and then, CANNOT FIND KNOPPIX directory --- and puts me into a useless shell.

Happened to me once, but was not kernel related but Windows corrupting the whole pendrive when trying to access sda2 in my USB-ZIP. Hope that helps.

The pen drive (with 2.2rc1) WILL boot on another box, so it's not corrupted. It is just NOT recognized on my Toshiba laptop --- won't boot, while the 2.1 version (with the newer kernel) boots fine on the Toshiba. So, It must be related to the older kernel used in 2.2RC1. I hope we don't end up using this older kernel, because I would love to use it on my Toshiba.

Just for the heck of it, try downloading the dsl 2.2rc1 USB boot floppy image (it should be the same as DSL 1.5 USB boot floppy) and see if you can boot your Toshiba using the pendrive and the boot floppy disk.

My suspicion is that you need the USB2.0 driver loaded in order to boot up your Toshiba, so give it a try and see what happens.

Quote (cbagger01 @ Feb. 02 2006,23:45)

Unfortunately, my Toshiba has no floppy .... Is the USB 2.0 driver part of the kernel used in the 2.1 release ? because that version boots just fine and recognizes all my USB stuff on the Toshiba. I'll just wait and see what the final decision is on the kernel matter --- I really hope that the older kernel is not chosen - that would kill it for me. Thanks for your input.

Nowadays, Laptops are using ACPI, not APM. It would be great if DSL 2.2RC2 can support APM and ACPI. Thanks

My thruppence worth from the point view of setting up DSL in a pretty low spec. machine as a simple homework / study / Amsn tool for my 11 year old son:-
Keep Ted - much more useable and reliable now than FLwriter (appalling) I haven't bothered with Abiword for a while. Any work Word doc.s saved in .rtf and then opened up at home in Ted are fine. Much much quicker.
Lose Firefox - it's memory requirements mean that is is never used on this old machine because it is SO SLOOOW. Dillo is fine for occasional surfing. If I want a serious, long and fast session of web surfing then I would use a much newer machine which would have a different correspondingly bigger OS on it.
Lose games
Lose xpaint
Replace Torsmo with the Asmem stack of utilities we had before. They worked.
Emelfm is great but keep MC also. I don't use it but I can see the point.
Jvm window manager is pointless really - unattractive and no benefit over fluxbox. I think it does DSL a disservice.
Xpdf and the graphics viewer work - keep.
Lose VNC viewer and FTP client - do people really use these?
I find Sylpheed really grim - what about a change of e-mail client to something a bit snappier - the bigger Claws version (as Vector 5.1) or better still iScribe. I use this all the time. on Windows.
I am not moaning - DSL is a star which I never fail to tell Windozers about.

Next Page...
original here.