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Posted: Oct. 23 2005,13:27 QUOTE
I've got this old Hewlett Packard Computer with 96 mb of Ram and a 400 mhz processer, a 12.7 gb hard drive and its Pentium II.  I want to use it for word processing primarily and I've been trying to get Linux on it.

Windows 98 has stopped working, whenever I boot it says "Invalid System disk."  I've tried the system restore disk and it restores for a while and then it gets hung up on extracting one entry.

So I put in the DSL boot cd I made, and it came up with the first screen.  I hit enter and it went to the screen with the little penguin at the top-left and then directly below it it said "kernel panic:no init found. Try passing Init= option to kernel."  And then it stopped there.

I know the boot disk worked  okay because I tried it on another computer and it worked.

I'm new to linux so I'm completly perplexed as to what to do now.  Thanks in advance for your help.
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GuillaumeH
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Posted: Jan. 20 2006,13:16 QUOTE
I have the same problem ( "kernel panic:no init found. Try passing Init= option to kernel.") with DSL 2.1b frugal on a Texas Instruments Extensa 450 laptop with 4 MB of ram.
Any help would be appreciated :)
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Posted: Jan. 22 2006,15:45 QUOTE
Does the dsl2.1-syslinux.iso version work?

Also, does a bootfloppy made from a BRAND NEW FLOPPY DISK work?  You may need to try several different floppy disks until you get one that has no errors.
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