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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,14:53 QUOTE
Hello,

    I have a tempermental Gateway 733mhz computer that I've been attempting to install various versions of Linux on to try them out.  The great news is that DSL and failsafe were my saviors.  I can get it up and running, but only in 8 bit or lower color mode until I can get i810 video drivers installed.  Upping the colors (which kicks it into enhanced desktop) will cause the system to freeze entirely (including mouse) within 60 seconds or less.

    I have tried other distros and they lock up pretty consistently at a certain point during the install (diff for both distros).  Could someone tell me all of the switches that failsafe activates in DSL so that I could manually type in their equivalents in these other distro installs and find out what their issues are?  

    Thanks in advance for your help.
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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,15:24 QUOTE
Found it (I think).  Located this list under the Knoppix website.  Thanks to anyone who was searching for me.

http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes

failsafe
Boot with (almost) no hardware detection
# cat /proc/cmdline                                              
ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us vga=normal atapicd
nosound noapic noacpi pnpbios=off acpi=off nofstab noscsi
nodma noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce nodhcp
xmodule=vesa initrd=minirt.gz BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux
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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,17:30 QUOTE
Our cheatcodes are very different from Knoppix's codes.

Look at isolinux.cfg for what is actually done with various codes in DSL.

-J.P.

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