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Posted: July 15 2004,19:19 QUOTE
cbagger01 & ke4nt1,

So maybe we have a clue as to what's going on, that the problem is related to DSL's use of the KNOPPIX 3.3 CD which includes syslinux, whereas Feather is a remaster of KNOPPIX 3.4 which employs isolinux? Interesting. If true, God knows if DSL development is going to be interested in moving to KNOPPIX 3.4 together with isolinux simply to accomodate one user. We don't know with certainty that 3.3 and syslinux is the problem, but how else to explain that I can boot Feather Linux and KNOPPIX and not DSL?

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Posted: July 16 2004,01:19 QUOTE
FYI,

I would expect that eventually DSL would be rebuilt up using a KNOPPIX 3.4 (or maybe even a 3.5 when it comes out) core.

However, since 3.4 is still relatively new and rebuilding DSL is a major effort, even more so considering that 3.4 contains two (2) different kernels, I would not count on a rebuild in the immediate future.

Can your computer boot knoppix 3.2?  If so, you may want to try out an older version of DSL, version 0.5.3.1

It doesn't have all of the latest features but it should work if knoppix 3.2 will boot on the machine.
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Posted: July 16 2004,20:29 QUOTE
cbagger01,

I'd like to try that experiment with KNOPPIX-3.2 but I can't find an unbasterdized form of that version anywhere. The various ftp sites would seem not to have archived older versions either, certainly their mirrors have only 3.4 and we already know that that boots just fine here. Ideas?

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Posted: July 17 2004,02:06 QUOTE
Yes.

Don't bother downloading knoppix 3.2  it is large and hard to find.

Instead, go to the DSL download site and grab a copy of DSL version 0.5.3.1
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Posted: July 17 2004,03:27 QUOTE
cbagger01,

I've downloaded and burned 5.3.1. So you know, I did the downloading with my main box, Gentoo-2004.1, got the file using links at ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org, burned with cdrtools-2.01_alpha28-r1 at speed=12 on a brand new Plextor SCSI CDRW drive, writeable media. Sad to say, I can't boot 5.3.1 either, can play with it just fine  on my main machine, however. Same old, same old. Looks like I'll have to wait for a DSL based on KNOPPIX 3.4 or 3.5, eh? I hate to admit defeat, but what else to do?

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