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junglemike Offline

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Posted: Mar. 29 2006,19:28

Thanks very much guys. I'm already trying this method. Will report results.
thanks again.

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Posted: Mar. 30 2006,01:13

OK guys. There have been some progress, but i'm stuck now.
First, My friend gave me some old laptop (which he isn't using) that has cd-rom, and can boot from it. So it made my life much simplier. DSL works on this second laptop (not mine) perfectly. I liked it very much. AFter booting DSL from cd - i installed it to harddrive (I chose Debian-type installation, where whole image is extracted to 200mb or so). Then i prompted to setup boot loader. Everything went fine. After restart, I put my harddisk back into my own laptop, and booted DSL. Setup went good untill some point, where it tried to launch X - no matter what display mode i choose (one was Vesa, socond - don't remember) It just won't start X and give me some errors, or just doing notheing. If I put this same harddisk and try to boot from it (not from cd) on second (friend's) laptop - it launches X and work perfectly. (just as good as from live-cd).

From this experience I understand that DSL probably doen'st support display adapter in my laptop (which is Trident 9525 , 2.5mb videoram). Since I'm not experienced user - I'm not sure if i'll be able to solve this. If you have any not too complicated proposals - please let me know.

If Dsl doesn't work for me - what other *LIGHT* and non-recourse hungry Linux distributions do you know that would work (good ) on P2-300mhz/128ram laptop?

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Posted: Mar. 30 2006,01:22

I hate to turn you away from DSL so hopefully someone else has a solution for you, but you asked about another light linux distribution- puppy linux is another one that seems pretty good. I prefer DSL's look and feel, and for me DSL is a lot more configurable with a lot more software add ons easily available. But puppy is another option. I think your system is just barely able to handle vector linux basic too. It's gorgeous but it didn't pick up my sound card and is slower (beauty comes with a price) than dsl and the package manger is a bit wierd.

brianw

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Posted: Mar. 30 2006,01:42

If you download the Xfree86 mydsl and install that you may be able to get your video working. Do a search on the net for linux and your video card (you will probably need to know this info regardless of the version of linux you choose).