Laptops :: laptop satellite vs DSL



I try to start with DSL 2.1b, 2.0, 1.5, 1.4 and the last the 0.6 versions of DSL in my little toshiba satellite 220 cds, 133 mhz + 16 ram...

the cd is recognized but in the startup-sequence... it crashes, i see some lines that i can read "segmentation fault", and other messages... panic kernel or something like that.
the last line i read "runlevel".

Can be enough 16 of ram? i read all the posts about problems on the start and laptops, i try all the commands, etc... but i'm not lucky.

The same cd's of DSL in other computers that i have, p266 + 92 ram, amd 500 + 400 ram, runs fine... all the versions, knoppix 3.1, 3.7, 3.9...

i think that better buy a simm with 64 mb of ram, because i prefer do that, and not see win in my little dear machine. I hope that can run DSL.

the only thing that i don't understand... is how w98 can run with only 16 ram, and DSL not. Probably is because i'm not an expert.

thx all the ways

sorry for the english, congratulations for your web and forums from Spain - Catalonia.
Try this boot code:

failsafe mem=16M

or

dsl mem=16M

or

fb800x600 mem=16M

Note that "mem" is lowercase and the "M" at the end is uppercase.

With only 16MB of RAM, you should definately create a DOS swap file or a linux swap partition in order to better use DSL.
you should also try fb800x600 at boot time

16Megs of RAM is very light...most of the xserver will be taking that space up..If you can find more RAM I would recommend it

Brian
AwPhuch
hello again, thx for your interest, i'm going to test it. :D

the 64 ram that i buy did not arrived to my house this week, and i try to put another linux, mandrake 6.1 '99... and it works fine.
Hi !
 I have similar problem with Toshiba 300CDS  (P166MMX 32MB RAM) .
32 Mb RAM is visible in BIOS.
DSL info : Total memory found 29548  kB.
After "Processor 0 is Pentium MMx 166MHz" system stoped and hanging. Why?
After comand  "dsl  mem=16M" - Total memory found 13232 kB -and to same situation.
Where is 3152 kB memory?
DSL not recognized RAM in Toshiba laptops ?

DSL Linux Kernel 2.4.31
CD is OK because DSL working on computer PIII 733MHz with 256Mb RAM.

Best regards
Przemcio
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