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Posted: Dec. 24 2004,04:48 QUOTE

OK I have some hacked up laptop.  It has only a 64MB CF card as storage.  I extracted the .iso to the CF and got loadlin to replace isolinux.  I did Xvesa -listmodes and found 800x600x16 to be the best.  After booting with that, I see the penguin again during bootup messages.  I've tried with and without fb800x600.  Every time I get just the checkered screen with my X mouse pointer in the center.  No response to pointer movement or trying to switch back to my console.  What's up?  Laptop is a really unique thing.  It's a surplus NetSchools machine.  Rise mP6 CPU 200MHz with 64M of RAM.  Everything outside of X works excellent.  :(
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Posted: Dec. 26 2004,16:21 QUOTE

i know this problems too. just one of five times fluxbox window manager was loading successfully using the dsl 0.8.4 distribution.
With dsl 0.9.1 it´s getting better (i even don´t know why) . Here are some things to be mentioned:

remove ALL other cdrom´s and floppys before booting
choose dsl vga=normal at the bootscreen
choose the right settings for your mouse while setting Xvesa configuration.
If you´re using a pointer or a stick instead of a mouse try with an external com-/ps2-/usb-mouse!!!
wait ´til dsl has finsished booting before using the mouse.

maybe one ore more of this points may help you! my actually quote is 1:1 successfull/unsuccessfull booting! :;):
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