tadpoleaus
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Joined: Mar. 2007 |
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Posted: April 01 2007,23:03 |
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G,day
I am having problem getting DSL installed on my son's old PC, I have tried using Xubuntu, but this takes about 3+ hours to install and is slower than (enter analogy here), and takes about 5+ mins to boot.
DSL seems to run up from the CD (dsl-3.2-syslinux), but as soon as it tries to run X, (I think that is what is happening) it just shows a black screen. I don't think it hangs, I think it is a video/screen issue. Prior to this I was running Windows 98 with no problems.
I was able to install it into the hard disk, and some how get it running to a command line, not sure how.
I can get it up and running from CD with failsafe, but only when I pick the lowest possible screen size and attributes, really the screen looks so 1960's and it is not functional.
I was able to get the live CD to work on my PC, 3.0 mhz, and looks goods and works fine, so CD not broken.
Any direction will be good, have tried most alternate settings (F2 & F3) stuff, but any direction from youall is appreciated
My background is IBM mainframes (don't judge me too harshly), so I understand the Linux concepts, but the implementation is slowly getting up to speed, so write answers slowly.
Hardware: Compaq Presario 2276 (circa 1998) 333MHz AMD K6-2 4.3gb hard disk 256 Mem
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