Problems with 0.6.2
Forum: User Feedback
Topic: Problems with 0.6.2
started by: Arioch
Posted by Arioch on Mar. 23 2004,21:50
I just downloaded 0.6.2, burnt it, put it in my computer, rebooted, and this is what I get...Creating directories and symlinks on ramdisk ... cloop: Read error at pos 48066804 in file /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX, 14378 bytes lost.
Than some more errors, and DSL loops an INIT: PANIC message over and over. At first I though it was just a bad download so I downloaded again from a different location. Same thing. I tried on two different computers... same thing. Has anyone else tried 0.6.2 yet? Any problems or just me?
Posted by Dan on Mar. 23 2004,22:25
Sounds like a bad burn, John posted a script somewhere which will do a md5sum on a CD image, try the search to see if you can find it.
Posted by enthusi on Mar. 23 2004,22:28
Hi!I didnt have any of thos eprobs you mention...
Sounds to me like
-something went wrong when burning the CD
-something went wrong when downloading the image (check md5)
-something went wrong with your booting device and/or the CD is too dirty?
I know - all lame reasons but I think my point is clear:
something went wrong.
Should work as far as I know and it did for me.
I'd check the MD5-code first and then take a deep look at the cd and then reburn in...
Jope it helps and you have fun with dsl 0.6.2 in future
enthusi
Posted by hasty on Mar. 23 2004,22:35
Yep no problems here booting 6.2 from the cd
Posted by pvdvyve on Mar. 23 2004,22:50
No problems, I first burned it on a cdrw.After a while I made a copy on a cdr.
Both still booting fine.
Posted by Arioch on Mar. 23 2004,23:01
Good download, bad CD. I did test the md5 checksum. It was ok. I just burnt it to a business card cd and it worked fine. Sorry for the false alarm. I just wanted to see if anyone else had any problems before I started to troubleshoot too much.
I've been using a 3" CD/RW for DSL since I currently have about 10 business card cds laying around with old versions of DSL on them. Because new releases come out so often it's easier to just format the CD/RW and burn the new DSL on it. The 3" CD is small enough for the pocket too. Even made a custom cover for it. : ( I hate to see the old girl go. I'll try to format and burn DSL on it one more time. I might have to retire her to the trash can though.
Anyhow, thanks for the fast input. I'm glad to hear that others are keeping up with the new releases too. I don't now about you but once I catch wind of a new release I start checking daily.
I see that the Synaptic script has not been added. Bummer, I was looking forward to that being built in. Oh well, just as easy to restore it from the USB jump drive.
Thanks Again!
Posted by GoranS on Mar. 25 2004,23:25
Tried 6.2 on my old Mitac (64 M, 2? G) laptop. The previous dist worked well. but now i dont get a question for resolution and it reports - fatal IO error 104 .... - and the process halts. I cannot use this -hope the next will ask for screen resulutions.
Posted by Rapidweather on Mar. 26 2004,02:12
My Damn Small Linux 0.6.2 iso worked fine the first time. Was suprised to seehow the boot up process has been shortened. When I " knoppix restore=/dev/hdb2" at the boot prompt, after the short server/mouse/resolution
setup, my desktop comes right up, without a restart of the window manager.
I have my own opening_message.html for dillo, and that's what greets me.
That I put in /home/damnsmall/.xinitrc, and restore that along with wvdial (sadly left out since dsl 0.5.3.1) and Foxfire.
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I'm not sure if I like the gtk (purple) interface.
The buttons on web pages look odd, and I would prefer that they look exactly like they would if viewed in Foxfire on Windows XP or Redhat 9, mainstream distros.
To demo this OS, DSL, to those users, everything must be the same, and they are not supposed to be able to tell what OS they are on. If that is true, one can demonstrate that this OS can produce the same results, Foxfire-wise as viewing a web page on XP, for instance. All that, without the need for a big expensive hard drive to contain the OS. I had an 80 GB maxtor fail, and my interest in live cd distros was part of the fallout, as I did not want to buy another.
Of course, 0.6.1could display web pages like XP.
The gtk change was made for 0.6.2 for reasons I do not fully understand, or were disclosed.
Perhaps for space or performance reasons, I would hope. DSL 0.6.2 is fast, so
maybe that change is part of the mix.
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Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 26 2004,18:30
FYIOn my system, the new GTK background looks like the color gray, not purple.
Posted by Vite on Mar. 26 2004,20:11
I burnt two cd's cause it won't allow me to burn on a cdrw, and it comes up with the same message on two separate computer, boot sector segmentation panic.What do I do?
Posted by steph291 on April 13 2004,16:58
My 0.6.2 is working almost perfectly but ...3 problems :
1. Everytime I boot, it goes in fluxbox, then NO MOUSE
ctrl-alt-backspace to go in console mode then
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse.
Starting fluxbox, I get my mouse working fine.
but it's annoying to do that everytime I boot :-s ?!?
2. I would like my cdrom mount automatically
when I boot (fstab modification needed)
3. Everytime I boot I need to 'netcardconfig' to
bring up the network connectivity ?!?
thanks for any info
Posted by roberts on April 13 2004,18:07
Place your custom startup commands in /opt/bootlocal.sh