Trouble with an old laptop

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Trouble with an old laptop
started by: Oni Ushi

Posted by Oni Ushi on Feb. 20 2007,01:15

I have a Toshiba Satellite 305CDS with a 166MHz Pentium MMX processor with 80MB RAM and 1.9GB HDD.

I have downloaded DSL 3.2 and did an ISO burn to a CD. I put my CD in the drive, boot it with the BIOS set to CD first and the DSL install screen appears. I have tried boot: dsl fb800x600, nopcmia, failsafe and noram in combinations of the above. Yet for some reason, it will not work.

The farthest it gets (and it always gets this far) is to a screen that says:

INIT: version 2,78-knoppix booting
Running Linux Kernel 2.4.26.
Processor 0 is Pentium MMX 166MHz

Then it stops. And it stays there. It doesn't move. Ever. And I die a little more inside.

Please! I need a small OS! Does anyone have any suggestions?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Feb. 20 2007,02:49

Seems you need to change your pcmcia settings in the BIOS.

If you don't need to use pcmcia, you can boot with "dsl nopcmcia"

More info here: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....77;st=5 >

Posted by Oni Ushi on Feb. 20 2007,03:16

pcmia isn't one of the options to change in my BIOS.

Posted by Wittfella on Feb. 20 2007,05:01

On my toshiba laptop, it is on page two of the bios settings, and is called 'PC Card'. I changed the setting to 'Cardbus/16bit' IIRC.

Posted by Oni Ushi on Feb. 20 2007,12:27

Yes! That worked! Thank you so much.