Wont boot DSL at all.

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Wont boot DSL at all.
started by: \eddy

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Posted by \eddy on Nov. 16 2004,04:50

it is set to boot from cd first but it wont  on ANY iso.  any suggestions?

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Posted by Bidi on Nov. 16 2004,15:10

Are you burning it the right way?  I made that mistake the first time too.  You have to get a ISO burning software like < BurnCDCC >.  The ISO needs to be extracted and then burned into the disk.

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Posted by Rapidweather on Nov. 20 2004,04:23

There may be two problems here, and I may suggest that you obtain an
original DSL cd to try, from John Andrews:
< The CD purchase page >
Once you get that CD, try it and see if the machine will boot it.
If it will not boot, try another machine or two. You might also, if you can,
ask John Andrews to send you a copy of DSL 0.6.2 also. It will boot on
machines when 0.8.x will not.
Also, if you are reasonably sure that your CD burning method is OK, then
download the older version and try it if you can. Here is the link:
< The DSL Archive >
Another good older version to consider is 0.5.3.1
It will run Opera 6.03. Check my < General Howto > on that. I consider 0.5.3.1 to be a real jewel of a DSL
distro! It will boot on almost any machine.  
The 5x and 6x versions differ from 8x versions in the way they are booted, because of the size of the kernel, and that can make
a difference on which machines they will or will not run on.
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Hope this helps.
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Posted by ico2 on Nov. 24 2004,17:13

0.7.1 runs on most machines, some will not boot 0.8.*
make sure you are burning it right (not just copying the iso as a file on the cd but using a "burn iso to disk" option in the burning software). what happens when you try to boot? it just carries on and boots from your hdd q? in windows (or any other os) try to read the cd. if you see dsl-0.8.0.iso in there then you burned the cd wrong, you should see a couple of folders (named knoppix and isolinux) and a file named index.html, if you see this then it is your machine having boot troubles

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Posted by ico2 on Nov. 24 2004,17:15

welcome to the forum btw

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Posted by Tahiti_Man on Dec. 16 2004,04:17

System:
DEC Prioris XL server w/2x166mghz pentiums
Matrox MGA Millenium
adaptec aic7870(2940) for HD and 1 cd(Sony CDU 55S)
adaptec aha152x for other scsi
questionable maxtor ide hd - possibly a huge p
Version    Loads/No
0.5.3.1    Boots 100% and can install to aic7870 hd
0.6.2      Bootable, then gets hung probing the aic7xxx
0.7.1       Boots to cd, runs part of install, then gets hung  
                probing aic7xxx. activity light strobes at 5 second
                intervals btwn cd and scsi hd
                Couple times got hptraid: Error reading
                superblock
                failsafe worked but had no use that I saw.  
                expert worked well

pulled another copy from another archive(belnet.be)
2nd copy of 0.7.1  did the same
 
0.9.0.1    Sees disc bootable but does not mount

As a sanity check, just booted to 0.5.3.1 and everything that worked before still works...

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