Need help to start X

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Need help to start X
started by: Amador

Posted by Amador on June 22 2006,21:09

Hello everyone.
I must say i didn't find DSL special on my PC, but on my laptop, that's another story

Ok, here the deal:
I have a Mitsubishi Amity CN, P133, 48M ram, 800M HDD.
I partitioned the HDD thru Win2K via USB, then connected it to the laptop. It has 4 partitions, 2 Linux, 1 SWAP, one FAT, to which i transfered the Knoppix and Boot directories from the DSL Live CD.
Running it via a boot disquette, it works flaulessly, even with the CPU at half the speed. Hey, after 2 hours trying to configure Win98SE to access the router, i managed to have internet access 2 minutes after starting X!

I have installed it now on the HD(well it's been taking me several hours due to some errors), it boots ok, but i get this error message when entering X:

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ~:0.0~ after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining

I also get an error about the FAt partition, something that can't find minix, efs, etc, on 03:01 or something. But htis is when booting. and the systems starts ok, apparently

What could this be?

Thank you very much

Posted by ZoOp on June 22 2006,21:36

Hi,
with your hardware, I would install dsl frugal, and I would not formate my hd with fat32, but reiser instead (ext2 or 3). It can perhaps solve some issue in order to start x clean.
yours
z

Posted by Amador on June 22 2006,22:25

Strangely, i booted from disquette only to command line (dsl 2 nosub noscsi noagp) and when starting X from the command line the same error occurred. Now i'm booting dsl nousb noscsi noagp vga=785 and runs marvelously with no errors.

Is it possible to use rawrite to make the CD image on the HDD like it does to a boot disquette? The problem would be no automated command line options

Posted by Amador on June 23 2006,15:36

After much hassle formatting installing, reformatting, i have successfuly installed DSL to the small machine (no frugal install).
Runs perfectly and with JVM, only 10M are used of the small ram i have available. Still, it takes a bit more time to load than Win98 - 3min - but most of the time is checking the swap file.

Thank you!