Rapidweather
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Posted: June 28 2005,22:25 |
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I'm back.
Just downloaded the "current.iso" from Planet Mirror, and it is an isolinux version of DSL.
Same thing, it boots past the splash screen, and gets to the "two penguins" (for a P4 HT), and then just sits there. No further boot. The little white rectangle no longer blinks, and all I have is the two penguins in the upper left hand corner of the screen.
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So, that answers the question of whether of not an isolinux version would boot on this Dell 4600, when a syslinux version would not.
No difference.
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I have no clue as to why DSL 1.2 syslinux, and DSL 1.2.1 isolinux will not boot on this box.
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I did test sucessfully, the DSL 1.2 syslinux on a Dual Pentium Pro 200 MMX box, just yesterday, and had absolutely no problem booting normally.
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The CD's are good, they do boot to the new splash screen (very nice).
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While I am here, and thinking about this problem let me offer this to make this post somewhat productive:
I do a lot of testing on as many livecd's as I can, on as many boxes, and have lots of combinations that work perfectly. I have some DSL installations that boot from a Windows 98 C:\ prompt, using loadlin, and a linux.bat file.
I use F8 to get to the Windows choice screen, and choose "command prompt only".
When DSL is booted that way, the splash screen does not appear, so no cheatcodes can be applied, and restoration must be done after X boots.
I use DSL 0.6.2 to do that, and the computer has no CDROM drive at all.
So many ways to use DSL on older computers, and it is preferred to the
much heavier SLAX linux on boxes with 128 MB of RAM, which will run, but
slower than DSL.
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Gotta go.
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