Laptops :: DSL 4.1 frugal install problems on Libretto 100



Whoops, yeah, that dsl xsetup is shown on the F2 option page when booting up from the live CD.  But it does open the door to setting Xfbdev in the .xserverrc file.
Except I cannot boot from the liveCD without going through the pain(again) of pulling the hd from my laptop and putting it into another machine.

Only floppy boot.  I guess I can try that...
PROGRESS!!!

floppy boot and the dsl xsetup

Chose buffered and now the screen is readable.

So I opened a terminal window,

sudo -s

cd /cdrom/boot/grub

vi menu.lst

Hey, I am told this is a readonly file????

A ls -ls shows permissions of 664 (rw-rw-r--).

So how do I edit this?

Then I went to backup to my hda3.  Invalid device.

df -h does not show hda3.

One of my boot options is home=hda3

What happened to my hda3?  cfdisk shows it.  My partitions are:

hda1    Boot   Primary Linux ext2     255.99
hda2              Primary Linux swap   255.99
hda3              Primary Linux ext3     3583.78
It's 664, so it should be writable.  Try this, it works in DSL:

[open terminal window]
sudo beaver /boot/grub/menu.lst &

Maybe that should be /cdrom/boot... but for my HD install the above is correct.
Making headway!

The problem writing of the /cdrom/boot/grub/menu.lst file was caused by the boot from floppy and then loading from hda1, instead of just booting from hda1.

The boot from floppy (dsl xsetup) allowed me to acutally see the screen and thus the menu choices.  The xsetup did not 'stick'.  But I rebooted, got the ugly screen but was able to start a terminal window as root and put in the vga=808.

A reboot got me a decently sized screen.  It is mostly grey and poor res.  I have to get the xfbdev to 'stick'.  Running it from the terminal window does not seem to make any changes.

I am now getting my hda3 as my home partition.  Seems before the problem was the floppy boot.

So I am at the 'fix the desktop' stage.  The desktop is the open mottle grey.  The system status stuff in the upper left is unreadable.  No icons on the desktop.  I cannot deduce what the deskto menu via right-click does.  Perhaps the wiki supplies some info..
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