Laptops :: fatal errors and the like

I have a few issues.
Dsl starts booting fine, and usually reaches a point where i have a blue screen with an X, looks like the begginings of the GUI. However my success stops here and the CD keps being active but much time passes and it gets nowhere.

On trying other boot options I either get this the same or i get a fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X Server ":0.0"
message.

What can I do?

Please note I am using an old system 75Mhz 16meg ram (laptop)

However DSL claims it can work on a system like this.

update:

I have now managed to perform a hard disk install, using the install boot option.
DSL does occasionaly seem to boot, but only as root and It does not look great.
I don't think I have a swap partition and don't know how to make one. I get numerous errors usually when connecting to Xserver.

Update:
Perhaps it would be best if someone could explain how i could completely wipe the hard disk, create the partitions i need, and then install dsl. Maybe not in that order.

Update: yet again, this is beggining to seem more like a dsl diary than a forum anyway,

after managing to partition my hard disk using fdisk, I still have the same problems and don't know what to do. I would have given up by now if not for the fact that this laptop managed to run windows 95 well enough, surely it can run DSL.

Update: hopefully final
This time i got it too work, last problem was probs just a incomplete install.
Anyway posting here incase anyone else has the same problems.
I figure that my main problem was the lack of a swap partition.

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