Installation freezes.

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Installation freezes.
started by: martinmanzana

Posted by martinmanzana on Aug. 12 2006,01:19

I have this old laptop I want to put DSL linux on. Its a Toshiba Satellite 2250XCDS with a Celeron 600Mhz, 64Mb of Ram and 6Gb of HDD. I am completly new to linux.

I installed an ubuntu server version, with no GUI. The command line gave me a hard time. I wasn't even able to install x-windows-system with fluxbox. I got tired of trying to get it to work. Decided to look for a low resource linux that came with a GUI. I found DSL linux. Great, I thought, this is the end of my troubles.

I dowloaded "dsl-3.0.iso" from "http://dsl.thegeekery.com/archive/" burned it on a CD. I booted the CD from the laptop. DSL seemed to boot correctly, but it to a part where it froze. It restarted the machine and tried again, but the installation always freezes in the same spot. I don't know what to do, I am helpless.

This is what the computer outputs before it stalls:

Scanning for USB devices... Done.
Accessing DSL image at /dev/scd0...
Total memory found: 61704 kB
Creating /ramdisk (dynamic size=44700k) on shared memory...Done
Creating directories and symlinks on ramdisk...Done
Starting init process.
INIT: Version 2.78-Knoppix booting
Running Linux Kernel 2.4.26.
Processor 0 is Celeron (Coppermine) 597Mhz, 128 KB Cache
ACPI Bios found, activating modules: ac battery button fan processor thermal

After this is just freezes! What should I do?

Thanks

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Aug. 12 2006,10:00

Try a couple cheat codes / boot codes ( sample list found in wiki, or the F2/F3 bootscreen )

I'd suggest "dsl acpi=off" for starters.