How long does it take for DSL to load

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How long does it take for DSL to load
started by: Bavor

Posted by Bavor on Jan. 14 2005,00:27

I was wondering how long on average it takes for DSL to load. I tried using it before, but since it was late I gave up after about 2 minutes. I got to the main boot screen that said "DSL", and then i pressed Enter. After about 2 minutes of waiting all I saw was a black screen. Is this normal or should I be seeing something else?

Posted by green on Jan. 14 2005,02:25

You should probably be seeing something besides a blank screen. Sounds like you may have to "adjust some settings" at boot.
There are several options for doing this.
If you post your hardware configuration, I'm sure some help will come to you.

Posted by Bavor on Jan. 14 2005,03:21

Quote (green @ Jan. 13 2005,21:25)

I have an HP Laptop with a mobile AMD Athalon XP 2200+ Processor, its 1.79 GHz, and it has 448 MB of RAM. (It's relatively new, I bought it 2 years ago.)

Posted by ke4nt1 on Jan. 14 2005,04:05

Try starting up with the command

' dsl vga=normal '

Let us know..

73
ke4nt

Posted by Bavor on Jan. 14 2005,08:39

Quote (ke4nt1 @ Jan. 13 2005,23:05)

Try starting up with the command

' dsl vga=normal '

Let us know..

73
ke4nt

Good news!

It works on my desktop(which I am using right now)

Not so good news!

I didn't work on my laptop. It seems everything goes fine until the part with unzipping the kernel.

Posted by MarkW on Jan. 16 2005,16:48

I had the same issue on a newer HP computer. I downloaded the syslinux iso and burned that. I booted to failsafe, which got me to the desktop and then configured my ethernet card from the main menu.
And here I am.
If this works for you too, you can optomize your graphics settings later.
One other note, if you are running XP, it is un-wise to try and write to the NTFS partition or the Fat32 restore partition if you want to save anything. You would have to re-partition (or find ) an alternative Fat32 or Fat16 partition and write to that instead. Alternatively you could also save to a flash memory device, or even easier, a properly formated USB memory device.
And welcome to the forum. Lots of help and info here