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Topic: Moron problems: can't intall to HD with disk

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vince clortho Offline

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Posted: Jan. 28 2006,20:53

HI, I'm obviously new to the world of DSL. I am trying to load DSL from a floppy and a CD to my craptastic Compaq deskpro with a 386. The boot disk seems to work somewhat, but it stops loading with the message "Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 1:03". it also says that it is "looking for DSL image in DSL image in /dev/sdg5". I suspect that the solution has something to do with me being a dumbass. can anyone help???

thanks!

VC

larkl

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Posted: Jan. 28 2006,23:06

You might try the CD in a different PC to be sure that you got it burned correctly.

cbagger01

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Posted: Jan. 29 2006,05:32

You have 16MB of RAM in that 386?

If not, consider alternatives like "Basic Linux" instead of DSL.

AwPhuch

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Posted: Jan. 29 2006,06:14

Keymaster...let me put it to ya like this!

Yeesh..that is one olda hella hunka junka bud!

I doubt it would run well in anything but runlevel 2 man..but it might work..does that 386 have a mathcoprocessor off chip? If not then it wont work at all as DSL kernel doesnt have math-coprocessor emulation built into it (why not ill never know)

Brian
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