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janrocks

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Posted: Mar. 22 2006,19:26

lovdsl and guys..Yes that was very helpful!, I got mine running with that info after more than a week of pain....Best info? Fdisk at runlevel 2...Great..Thanks

I also had the problem of loading faulty settings from somewhere on Hda3..Thought the easiest way was start again..

Total full install (and a root around) completed in 30 mins, on a P133....Didn't know this machine could be so fast.. :laugh:

NewDude

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Posted: Mar. 22 2006,20:48

janrocks.... that is great... glad we could help..

This weekend I will be putting DSL on another older P133 machine also, I will have 5 DSL machines then...

Yeah, running DSL at level 2 is a big help when installing... that is the only way to install... you will get a good clean install if you do it at level 2...

janrocks

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Posted: Mar. 26 2006,01:17

Thanks guys...
I did some investigating and found what was happening was at a certain point in the install the system does a reboot...Then it does the starting up stuff until it gets to a point where it reports something about "invalid such and such file ( something to do with screen resolution?)..restoring from hda3" that goes by a bit too fast, all I can say is what I managed to scrape off my retinas...Then some more ending with
"Entering run level5"...then everything stops with a blank screen..

Not a problem now..just thought you would find a report useful.

Jan

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Posted: Mar. 26 2006,03:55

What I managed to scrape off my retinas...ok I can use that..hahaha
Glad you found a solution..what was it? I had the messed up screen first time around and then typed dsl vga=normal to solve

janrocks

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Posted: Mar. 26 2006,04:15

Hi.. It seems that the first failed install attempt left some files lurking on hda3..something to do with vga settings.Jhats what flashed before my eyes..Restoring somesuch from hda3 (persistence of vision is useful sometimes)After I re-partitioned the drive properly,with cfdisk.. I think I did?..not sure yet, it seems to work ok..too cold upstairs (I just formatted an ex redhat drive first time) the install went smoothly...Another old one to do tomorrow.. 486sx!..I'll keep a proper log so I know exactly what I did this time..seems like as the drive controller was going out on the previous mobo I tried there was something I wasn't expecting going on...possibly multiple failed installs and partial files..

I like DSL..been using it on my xbox for about 10 months, better than gentoo and xebian..Not that theres anything wrong with them..Just take up too much space..

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