Installation Failure

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Installation Failure
started by: saint chris

Posted by saint chris on Oct. 29 2004,00:38

I am try to install DSL on an old system with limited 40mb ram

All goes well until I get:

Xinit: no file errno 2 unable to connect to X server

Xinit: no such process errno 3 server error

Any ideas?

Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 29 2004,02:35

Perhaps this system cannot startup the X server in the default 1024x768 mode.

Were you able to bootup the LiveCD first before trying an install ?

If you can try the " xsetup " option at the boot: prompt during startup,
you will get an opportunity to use a lower resolution before starting X

Once you get the system booted up and into the X desktop, use the
right click menu to select a method to install your DSL to your computer.
Then the parameters you used to get DSL running form LiveCD will be
passed on to your frugal/HDInstall..

73
ke4nt

Posted by saint chris on Oct. 29 2004,08:31

I have successfully installed to hd. Now I have no mouse when I Re boot

Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 29 2004,12:19

Sounds like a serial mouse ..

reconstruct the link from /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/mouse ..

Search the forums using keyword 'serial' for more info ..

73
ke4nt

Posted by saint chris on Oct. 29 2004,14:36

I'm new to Linux... how do you reconstruct the link?

Posted by ke4nt1 on Oct. 29 2004,14:59

Using the search feature of the forums is easy ..
Click the search button in the upper right of this screen

Next to the line "search keywords" , enter the word "serial"
Next to "forums" , select "All Open Forums"
Next to "search from" , select 'The Beginning'

Click the 'search' button at the bottom..

I found this thread using this technique .
Read my first post about how to make your serial mouse work.
< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....=serial >

The search feature will help you find answers to your challenges.
Usually, others have already posted techniques to solve problems with certain hardware ..

73
ke4nt