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Posted: Oct. 19 2006,08:56

Hello all. im looking for some help, here is the problem:

The installation process looks normal but never start the graphical mode, stops in command line. I tried lowram, and others options and doesnt seems to work.

I try with the current and dsl syslinux 3.0 with floppy boot because the compuert dont have the option too boot from CD.

The specs of the machine are:

486DX2 66 mhz
1GB HD
16 MB Ram
Floppy
CDROM
ISA Netcard

I appreciate

some help to get in the graphic mode.
Thanx.

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Posted: Oct. 19 2006,13:26

I'd make a swap partition if not already done.
Did you do a traditional harddrive install, or frugal/poorman? Frugal isn't going to do much on 16mb.

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Posted: Oct. 19 2006,15:22

It seems like he's just using a bootfloppy and the livecd - I'd suggest installing as a traditional hd-install as mikshaw suggested. (boot with "dsl install"? Might have to partition first)

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Posted: Oct. 19 2006,20:38

Ok, I made the partition. Format then one with
mkfs /dev/hda1 and the other with
mkswap /dev/hda2

install to HD and get me a no space in device, so? what kind of File System must be, is ext2 ok?

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Posted: Oct. 19 2006,22:39

Yes ext2 is fine (though I thought the scripts prompts for formatting)

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