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Posted: Nov. 11 2005,17:55 QUOTE

Hi,

I downloaded and burned DSL to a cd, it works fine on one  machine (PIII), but when I try to boot it on another, completely formatted (so nothing on it) machine (PII, 64 mbRAM, 133 mhz, 4Gb-hd) it just won't. After giving an Enter for booting (or another command), the screen turns black and there is nothing left but resetting the pc.
I've tried the failsafe-command, but then I get the error:
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Uncompressing Linux...
crc error
--system halted

Any ideas?

Before I forget, I'm completely new to Linux, so please, keep it simple.  ???

Update:

Just now I tried it again, but was to late to respond to the bootcommand (Enter or F2 or F3), and it went on, but now there is another error:
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Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
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Posted: Nov. 11 2005,18:24 QUOTE

First, download the syslinux version and burn a CD from the iso. It seems to work better on older machines than the regular version. Secondly, you probably should boot with the cheat code for normal vga, or maybe one of the lowram options to start with until you can determine what your machine can handle. It sounds like you may have a flakey CDROM drive, or else the CD you burned is flakey.

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Posted: Nov. 11 2005,20:04 QUOTE

Sounds like a bad CDROM, I would follow the syslinux version recommendation as well

Brian
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Posted: Nov. 11 2005,21:59 QUOTE

Thanks!
I'll give it a try.
Let you know if it worked.  :)
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Posted: Nov. 11 2005,22:28 QUOTE

That did the trick!
Thank you!
Next step: installing it to the harddisk.
To be continued.... :D
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