cbagger01
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Posted: Mar. 16 2004,18:48 |
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I can run DSL on a Pentium-I 60MHz system with 40MB of RAM.
8 MB of RAM may be too little for a full blown grahical (X-Windows) setup of DSL. Creating a swap file or a swap partition is almost a must-have for an 8MB system.
You probably have an old CDROM drive and disk controller that will not be autodetected by DSL. For example, my PC has an old Aztec sound card with a special Mitsumi CD-ROM controller and Mitsui CD-ROM drive.
It is possible to get this CDROM drive to work in DSL after you are up and running, but it will not work as a boot device even with a boot floppy.
If your computer is like mine, you will need to make a new directory on your C:\ drive. Please create C:\KNOPPIX directory and then copy all of the files over from your CDROM's \KNOPPIX directory.
Then create a boot floppy disk and reboot with the floppy inside the drive.
The boot process will find the files on the C:\ drive and use them to boot up DSL. A side benefit is that your DSL will run faster because your C:\drive is faster than your CDROM drive.
Search the forum for more details. Push the "Search" button above and try several different searches using keywords like "poor" (for poor man's install), or "swap". Then choose ALL FORUMS and search FROM THE BEGINNING or NEWER.
Also, the first time that you boot DSL, you will want to boot into a TEXT MODE console (similar to an MSDOS prompt). At the boot prompt, type in "knoppix 2" to start up in this mode.
Good Luck.
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