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Posted: Oct. 25 2005,02:31 QUOTE
I have an old laptop sitting around that I decided to play around with.  It is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 470CDT.  I am using a floppy USB boot disk, and the DSL image on a 128 meg attache drive.  The computer boots fine off the floppy, it loads the drivers for the usb, and finds the image just fine.  It creates the /ramdisk and it's directories and symlinks.  It says "Starting init process." "INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting" "Running Linux Kernel 2.4.26." "Processor 0 is Mobile Pentium MMX 199MHz" then it hangs. No activity on the floppy or USB drives and I've let it sit there like that for over 3 hours with no change.  I've tried playing with some of the boot options such as: vga=normal, dma, failsafe, expert, different color/resolution combos, minimal, lowram, and install.  The farthest it gets with any of the options is to the processor detection.  Any ideas on how to get it to boot?
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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,16:26 QUOTE
How about

lowram mem=32M

Where the "32M" is the amount of RAM installed in your laptop.  Make sure that the "mem" is lowercase and the "M" at the end is uppercase
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Posted: Oct. 29 2005,05:00 QUOTE
In The BIOS, Use PgUp/PgDn to switch between the two pages.
Set (and note) the parameters for the various devices, in particular, the sound card.
On page 2, under PC CARD, set Controller Mode=PCIC Compatible, or the PCMCIA ethernet card won't work.
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Posted: Oct. 30 2005,17:56 QUOTE
Did you install USB HDD or USB ZIP?
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Posted: Oct. 30 2005,18:00 QUOTE
Sorry it's floppy!
I was wondering about my own Toshiba. b/c i can't even get it to read the usb pen drive at startup.
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