KerowynM
Group: Members
Posts: 15
Joined: June 2006 |
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Posted: June 05 2006,13:57 |
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Sorry, I should have been more specific. The laptop is too old to boot from the CD, P1 133Mhz 16M. I've tried both DSL 2.3 and 2.4, with the same results. dsl-n won't boot on my desktop (AthlonXP 2000+ 640M yadda..) for whatever reason (I never got around to doing more then burning, booting, failing, and moving on) I'm pretty sure it won't work on the ancient laptop
I actually finnaly managed a HD install with lilo (Grub didn't want to take for some reason, which is unfortunate because I don't remember anything about lilo) and now am trying to get XF86 to work with the laptop display (I finnally got kdrive working with the fbdev and vga=785), but that is another story...
I still want to be using a frugal install, but whenever I boot one, or boot from the poormans, I get no ramdisk, just a ro root filesystem. Oh well at least I got one type of install to work. Might just have to wait for 3.0 to get more stable and hope unionfs works better.
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