NewbieDan
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Joined: Oct. 2006 |
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Posted: Nov. 20 2006,08:14 |
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Hi; I saw nobody replied so I am. I am newbie too! But I most be doing something right because I writing you on my old laptop using Wlan and DSL hdd install!
I think the computer you are wanting to run DSL on is way to low power and low memory to being trying 3 partitions and operating systems. From what I have read 16 mb of ram is going to be able to run DSL and nothing more! I suggest you buy the DSL CD if you machine is to old to read CD-R. I am suspicious of that though. It it a common problem for really old laptops to not be set in BIOS to boot from the CD rom. I think this is more the problem that reading the CD-R. I could see a CD RW not being read. I dont think my old Thinkpad would either, but a one time CD-R shouldn't be a problem. Get into your BIOS during boot up of windows 95 and see if the boot sequence has the CD-rom in it. Add it in and then make it primary in the boot sequence. Then when you put in the CD live DSL it will boot directly from it. DSL is really neat for legacy machines but for us newbies the big drawback is documentation, or lack thereof. I have tried to read as much as possible on the net to get a working understanding of terminology. I still don't know what half the apps do, I just try and peck around and learn from my mistakes. I really wish there was an explanation of the DSL apps and how to use them such as the file manager and beaver etc.
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I had just assumed it wouldn't work rather than trying it. Oh well, lesson learned!