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Posted: Nov. 05 2006,01:49 QUOTE
Hey everybody
 I've been wanting to get my old Toshiba 3015CT working for awhile, but I hate Windows. So I installed DSL off a USB pen drive using the Floppy Boot Loader. I used DSL-3.0.1-embedded.zip for the pen drive and Bootfloppy-USB.img for the Floppy. It booted fine, but the screen is all green and yellow, with lots of white bands. Has this happened before? What did I do wrong?
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Posted: Nov. 05 2006,05:28 QUOTE
See xsetup.sh

Or check the fb/vga bootcodes.
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Posted: Nov. 05 2006,05:50 QUOTE
If you hate windows, I suggest trying to run DSL natively rather than embedded. It will run much faster and you won't need windows.

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Posted: Nov. 05 2006,15:59 QUOTE
Uhh, what xsetup file?

It's not actually running embedded, it's running off a USB pen drive using a boot floppy. I found a page somewhere in the wiki that said to use the embedded file for USB booting, should I try the non-embedded file?

UPDATE: No, I tried the non-embedded file with the exact same result.
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Posted: Nov. 05 2006,16:04 QUOTE
At the very first boot prompt from floppy:

boot: dsl xsetup

Also at the first boot prompt, you can press F2 or F3 and try booting with other vga codes as well.
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