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cbagger01

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Posted: Aug. 06 2005,18:20

Is this a SCSI card?

If so, you may need to load your SCSI controller card driver at boot time.

What is the name or model number of your ISA controller card?

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Posted: Aug. 07 2005,23:23

Quote (cbagger01 @ Aug. 06 2005,14:20)

Is this a SCSI card?

If so, you may need to load your SCSI controller card driver at boot time.

What is the name or model number of your ISA controller card?

Its a Vitex with a Winbond chip.

However i have used the bootable disk that "mikshaw" said, and i have a question.
After the boot it give tree options:

"Enter" to load,
F2 & F3 for options

1-At this moment the cdrom is already detected, for i can boot from dsl cd?

2- With command shoul i write if i want to boot directly from cd?

3- With command shoul i write if i want to put the dsl system in hdd, and then boot from hdd?

4- Wich option shoud l use for a pc with 16 mb of ram?

5- dsl works with 8mb of ram? if ye,with method boot from cd or hdd?

thx for the help
Carlos Saraiva

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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,03:45

1. If you are booting from the DSL boot flopy disk, then your CDROM has NOT been detected yet. This is a false assumption.

2. Use the command listed here:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....and+low

3. After getting to the command prompt, use cfdisk to make a swap partition on your hard drive and use mkswap and swapon to format and activate the partition. Then make a linux partition and use mkfs -t ext2 <devicename> to format it. Then use dsl-hdinstall to install to hard drive.

4. See number 2. Except remove the "1" from the boot command line.

5. I think DSL will not work with only 8mb of ram. It is possible to get it to boot into text mode with no swap and only 12MB but I don't think that 8MB is possible. Try something like "Basic Linux" or "Deli Linux" as alternatives.

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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,18:02

Hi

I Could not understand your awnser nº1. Could you remake the awser?

So your command,
"dsl 1 vga=normal atapicd noideraid nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce" is for pc with low ram.

and if i want to boot from a bootdisk (cause bios doesnt support form cdrom), and i want with all options? Its like "dsl1" and then it boots from cd?

Tanks
Carlos Saraiva

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Posted: Aug. 08 2005,22:08

For answer #1, if you are using a floppy boot disk, the "ENTER F2 F3 Options" menu is loaded from the floppy disk. Because it is loaded from the floppy disk, nothing has been loaded from the CDROM yet. So this is not proof that your CDROM is working properly.

Yes, this command is for booting into TEXT mode when using a PC with low RAM.

So you would type:

Code Sample

dsl 1 vga=normal atapicd noideraid nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce

at the boot F2 F3 prompt.

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