Laptops :: Installation Problems

lowram, ok, thanks, I shall try that when I get home.

I just got my Satellite Pro 480CDT lat night and almost didn't go to sleep because I was playing with it. It came with Windows 98 early edition installed. My AT&T 6700g wireless card would not work with Win98. I'm hoping I can get it going with DSL 1.5 tonight, but It may be a tough job to do it. When I tried loading DSL last night, it recognized the card as an Athos, which I think it is, but then said it was unable to load the drivers from the live CD. I'm going to do a HDD install tonight to see if it makes any difference.

Try booting with:

dsl mem=32M

if your PC has 32 MB of RAM. Make sure that the "mem" is lowercase and the "M" at the end of the "32" is UPPERCASE

OK, I got mine working with no problems using the syslinux version. It loaded the athos drivers for the wireless pcmcia card, and everything is beatiful now. I did have to enter the BIOS and set the pcmcia card to pci 16 instead of auto.

Ok, entering in "dsl mem=32M" lead me to the following line:

"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 1:03" Just below the little smiling Linux Pengiun dude. Then it just sits there blinking.

Entering "lowram" at the boot prompt leads me to the "Enter runlevel:" screen again. Reading the text above, I di notice the words "Segmentation fault" about 7 lines up, perhaps that is a clue . . . ?

Also, I am not 100% sure that the CD is good. It is the dsl syslinux 1.5 iso, and the md5sum thing matched, and it was burnt using GnomeBaker on my Desktop at speed 4, but the CD *could* be faulty. I might try it in my desktop later, to verify that it does work.

I have also tried "failsafe", "fb800x600", "failsafe fb800x600", "noacpi", and one really long one where I essentually turn off HW detection, and all either failed, or led me to that "Enter runlevel" screen.

Anymore suggestions? And I really appreciate you guys giving me a hand here, the help is awesome on these forums. Thanks all!

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