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alvez

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Posted: May 07 2006,23:40

150 MHz CPU, no USB, slow CD, and 80M of RAM. I may tinker with placing frugal on a PC Card. Yeah, I'll stick to HD installs for now. In spite of the complete lack of horsepower, my DSL box is an outstanding performer.

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Posted: May 15 2006,06:00

Quote (urwatuis @ April 23 2006,17:41)

I installed a PC card network interface (wired) and although it worked fine under Win XP DSL does not recognize it. I have a 300MHz PII w160MB RAM and a 20 GB HD. Plenty of resources. anyone have any ideas?

I experienced a similar problem with DSL 2.3 in two AMD-PCs, one with PCI netcard and another with a mainboard netcard, so I came back to 2.0, which works fine with both netcards.
Please Download DSL 2.0 and try it first.

*JT.

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urwatuis

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Posted: May 15 2006,18:09

Quote (TTK=Teobromina_Tool_Kit @ May 15 2006,02:00)

Quote (urwatuis @ April 23 2006,17:41)

Thanks for the reply JT. I'll try DSL2.0. I should have been specific and said my network card is a M$ Broadband Networking Notebook Adapter MN-120 (10/100 ethernet) I hope DSL2.0 works with my 2 wireless cards too. I have a Linksys and a D-Link. Thanks for the help.

BTW nice website

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Posted: May 15 2006,22:42

I'm running dsl on a Toshiba 3010CT, one of the early ultralight laptops - 266Mhz pentium, 96mb memory, 4gig HD - runs like a champ under dsl2.3. I've been running dsl since v1.4.

The 3010 won't boot from CD, it won't boot from USB, won't boot from floppy in different configurations, so I'm stuck doing a poorman's install. The poorman's barely runs. Attempts to do a frugal from the poorman's into another partition fail in various ways, some fixable, but not properly configured. The HD install (from poorman's) just plain works - it aint broke, so I'm not fixing it.

jimihieu

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Posted: May 22 2006,14:37

Quote (namezk @ May 16 2005,15:01)

I did a hd install because it boots much faster than using the 1x cdrom drive I have (especially after I modified the knoppix-autoconfig file).

hi
can u please give me some hints on howto modify the knoppix-autoconfig file?
example i just want to detect HDD,VGA,keyboard n mouse and ram...that is pretty much...
which sections should i keep?
thanx

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