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brett
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Posted: Feb. 02 2005,01:27 QUOTE
im getting the same problem

main screen if i push enter just a black screen

if i boot with that command i get

uncompressing linux...... ok, booting the kernal.

and the system hangs

im using a cd boot on a compaq presario 700 series


any ideas


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detpenguin
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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,21:11 QUOTE
same problem as brett here...except on an HP 705.  512mb ram, 2.9gh celeron.  it gets to the "compressing linux, ok, booting kernal" and just hangs...i have to push the power button to reboot.  i've gotten this far, so i know it's probably something silly and obvious, but i can't figure it out...anyone?
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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,21:28 QUOTE
It works on my toshiba 110cs laptop,
but I have it maxed out at 40MB's ram.

I still needed a large swap to do much with it. ( 80MB's )

I installed Xfree86 on it, and now I get 8 bit color at 800x600.
vesa support on it stinks, with only 4 bit working.
It just chokes completely on FB ( fb800x600 )

But it works nicely now..  just took a bit of tweaking..
Surfing w/dillo, IRC, ssh, etc, all work nicely.

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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,21:49 QUOTE
I am having trouble booting the new 1.0rc1 version. I have an AMD K6 233mhz with 128mb ram. I have 0.9.3 installed on my hard drive but downloaded the new version and booted from it but the first time it would not boot, going extremely slow, getting stuck in a cloop and asking me for a password which wasnt either of the passwords for my hd install. Sorry I did not write down the message before I tried again. On the second try it again went extremely slow to the point where I finally just powered down before it finished. 0.9.3 still boots fine on this computer and the 1.0rc1 cd boots fine on my old laptop. Does anyone have an idea of how I can boot 1.0rc1?
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Posted: Mar. 10 2005,22:45 QUOTE
for a test, see if you can boot the liveCD with this command
" dsl norestore "  or  " dsl base norestore "

This will make it bypass looking for files and backups,
that it may be finding normally, and getting confused.

Are you running the 0.9.3 HDinstall with a different username
than the default user DSL  ?

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