DSL boot CD + VIA EPIA 5000 problems

Forum: USB booting
Topic: DSL boot CD + VIA EPIA 5000 problems
started by: WCD

Posted by WCD on July 14 2006,18:02

Hi i hope that someone can help me,
i have tried persistently to download the ISO's and they seem to download fine. then i burn them to disk and that seems to go fine as well. However when i try to boot them all i hit is a looping Cloop error. Am i doing anything wrong. I have tried saveral versions of DSL to no avail on different machines.

Second question, i have recently built a mini pc with the aim of running it as a file server or firewall, but mainly to play with it ^_^, the system is based around the VIA EPIA 5000 with 512mb RAM. When i try to boot any version of a bootable linux i get an;

ISOLINUX 2.11 0x415e01eb iso linux Disk error :

which is interesting, will DSL work with this board assuming i can get a working boot CD??

well thats about it, any help would be very appreciated.
Cheers
WCD

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 14 2006,19:50

Disk error... did you check your downloaded iso with the md5's?

Although this may not be it... you may need to use the syslinux boot cd's.