dsl-hdinstall

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: dsl-hdinstall
started by: tom_butz

Posted by tom_butz on May 17 2004,04:19

I ran DSL 0.7 off the CD, and everything was perfect, including X-Window.

Then I installed it to hd (hda10) and everything still runs fine, but X-Window keeps crashing with:

XIO: fatal error 104.

I tried both single-user/multi-user options, and it didn't change 1 bit.
I booted with dsl 2, did cd /usr/sbin and ran dsl-hdinstall from there.

What am I doing wrong?

Tom Butz, New Zealand

Posted by alochin on May 21 2004,04:43

Similar problem for me.
I get the following message:

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection rest by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

-end of message -

The computer is a Cyrix 133MHz with 48M of RAM.
Since it can't boot on the CDROM, DSL was install on the hard drive from another Pentium III computer.
Partitionning is 255MB DSL, 64M swap, 700MB logical partition.

DSL 0.5 was successfully installed that way on this computer??

Posted by skaos on May 21 2004,09:59

If you are using lilo to boot, I have no idea, but if you are using loadlin you need a clean boot without accessing autoexec.bat or config.sys: in dos press F5 while booting and in win9x F8 and select the bottom choice. In a basic linux 3.21 installation (which uses the same X-server as DSL) I get the following message if I don't do this:

Fatal server error:
no screens found
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection rest by peer) on X server "localhost:0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Posted by alochin on May 22 2004,06:55

I solved my problem

This is a Cyrix 133MHz system that can't even load DSL live (no boatable CD), so I HD-installed DSL by movind the HDD into my PIII system.
Unfortunately, the screen resolution was set at 1024 x 768. This was not supported by the no-name video card I had in th Cyrix system. When I replaced the video card with a Mystique I had laying around, I didn't get the error any more, but the screen was gardbaged. That time, it was the screen that did not support the resolution.
I just switched the HDD back in the PIII system and decreased the resolution, put the HDD back in the Cyrix system, and voila! I am typing this with the Cyrix system right now.

Better be carefull with that old hardware!
The computer is ~ 10 years old.