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gjhicks

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Posted: Nov. 18 2005,22:15

Hi,

In the past, I have managed (very easily) to get DSL working, on a range of laptops and desktops. Never had a problem. Used to show DSL booting to friends and family on their machines - just to amaze them!

But, now have a problem.

Am trying to get DSL working on a PC clone, with a small ATX board (one of the square type) that has integrated sound, video and audio (SIS 620), 576mb RAM, Pentium II 400mhz, with two HDDs, CD R/W and FDD.

The booting process goes fine through the CPU, RAM, video, etc. Then the two IDE channels are checked, the two HDDs and the CD R/W are found (and correctly indentified).

Then the retro DSL "....no warranty...." message appears.

Then the boot process halts.

I have tried "failsafe" and lots of combinations of "noxxx". I tried taking out one of the HDDs. I tried Feather linux 0.7.4 and Knoppix 3.8.

Always the same result.

Any help much appreciated.

Regards,

Geoff.

cbagger01

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Posted: Nov. 18 2005,22:44

Try a Poorman's install:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies

AwPhuch

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Posted: Nov. 19 2005,02:23

Check out the bios...something is causing it to hang up...if not try the syslinux image of DSL

Brian
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gjhicks

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Posted: Nov. 19 2005,05:15

Hi,

Thanks for the replies.

cbagger: will do

awphuch: excuse my ignorance but I thought the CD boot used syslinux, there are such files in the 'boot' directory?

Regards,

Geoff.

AwPhuch

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Posted: Nov. 19 2005,06:34

No the current.iso uses isolinux..there is a special release that uses syslinux that boots better on older hardware

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/damnsmall/current/

Brian
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http://www.smoothwall.org <-- Ultimate firewall for the world!
http://boinc.mundayweb.com/one/stats.php/userID:6107 <--My BOINC stats!
./S99LinuxRevolution start

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