desperate help can you please help me !!!!

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: desperate help can you please help me !!!!
started by: xenogear

Posted by xenogear on May 11 2005,06:18

hello i need your help, i was wondering if u can use DSL on computer with a harddisk that died !!

and my computer does not support booting from the cd at bios level.
my system specifications are 486 33 mhzs, 8 mb ram, floopy drive and a sound blaster 16bits.
can you guys please me !!
thanks in advance !!

Posted by skaos on May 11 2005,10:29

Download boot-0.8.0.img in the "current" directory from one of the download sites. Create the boot diskette, boot with it and the CD in the CD drive, and write "dsl 2" (without quotes) at the boot:-prompt. It may/may not work - I'm not sure if 8 MB is enough to boot the live CD into command line (it is not enough to use X-windows).

Posted by xenogear on May 11 2005,10:50

thank you skaos ,do you know any other linux distro that has a live cd feature similar to DSL so i can use it on that computer with the above specifications , i really need get it running again as i using it as a second computer. i only need to use this computer to view a few word documents and maybe spreadsheet and no games.

Posted by skaos on May 11 2005,11:14

http://www.toms.net/rb/
< http://www.volny.cz/basiclinux1/ >
< http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....dex.htm >

I'm not sure if Basic Linux will work without a HD. And, sorry, I think you can forget any word documents and spreadsheets.

Posted by cbagger01 on May 11 2005,11:39

I don't think it will work.

Most likely, you don't have a normal CDROM drive in that computer so the boot disk will fail to detect the CD properly.

One of the floppy-based linux distros should work, though.

And DSL might still work. It is possible if your CD drive is a standard ATAPI CDROM that plugs into the IDE controller cable instead of the soundcard board.

Posted by xenogear on May 11 2005,22:51

thanks to the people that replied