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Posted: Nov. 08 2004,01:01 QUOTE
Hi I'm a complete Linux noob, and very impressed with DSL. I'm running it on a PII 233 with 128mb ram.

I'm running DSL currently by booting off the 0.8.0 floppy, with the ISO extracted to my c:\ drive. I don't currently have a CD burner.  It boots and runs fine, except for the fact the modem driver fails. It trys to load a few drivers, but they all fail. When I go to net setup, it just says it can't find a card.

I have a speedtouch 330 ADSL modem.

I am reluctant to install on the HD, as I don't understand a lot about linux, but I'm trying to learn. Unfortunatly I feel a little lost when im in DSL without my broadband to connect to the outside world! So I'm going into DSL to have a play around and try some things, then rebooting into windows to get help & support.

Any ideas, comments or links greatly appreciated.

Rob.
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Posted: Nov. 08 2004,04:20 QUOTE
Here's a couple links that might help, since dsl is based on knoppix 3.4:

http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=49835

http://christophe.delord.free.fr/en/adsl/debian.html

Also, if your modem works in MSWindows and you just want to give DSL a quick try with networking, try running DSL from inside Windows with full networking support.

It's called DSL embedded. It should work, but it runs REAL SLOW...

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....mbedded
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Posted: Nov. 09 2004,00:29 QUOTE
Thanks a lot for that info cbagger01! I'm on my way to a life of linux.

-Rob
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Posted: Nov. 10 2004,09:49 QUOTE
on a 233? it's slow enough on a 533

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Posted: Nov. 10 2004,09:51 QUOTE
dsl-embedded i mean, dsl normal will be nice and fast :)

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