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Posted: Jan. 16 2005,05:59 QUOTE

Unless I'm mistaken, I think its called boot-0.8.0.img and it can be found on a DSL mirror under current.

Or, here is a direct link to the file:
http://ibiblio.org/pub....8.0.img
and to verify: http://ibiblio.org/pub....md5.txt
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Posted: Jan. 16 2005,07:02 QUOTE

And here is the link for rawrite32.zip:

http://www.duskware.com/download/rawrite.zip
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Posted: Jan. 16 2005,15:28 QUOTE

My report coming:

I downloaded boot-0.8.0 from there, use rawrite
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rawrite boot-0.8.0.img a:
made a boot floppy drive, now DSL is running on my old machine!

Thanks!

But.... the old mouse doesn't work any longer, I have to use keyboard only to work on DSL. I'm quite familiar with the Keyboard Command on Windows, but not master very well under Linux, where can I find a guide about keyboard Command on DSL Linux?

EDIT: I find the guide, will read up them!

Here is main boot Log:

Total memory found: 61832KB
Creating /ramdisk (dynamic size=47584K) on
Shared memory... Done.
Creating directories and symlinks on ramdisk... Done.
Starting inti process
INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting
Running Linux Kernel 2.4.26
Autoconfiguring devices
WARNING: Autodetection seems to hang, please check your computers BIOS settings
Please check

Scanningfor Harddisk partitions and creating /etc/fstab... Done.
Auto mounter started for: floppy cdrom
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
mount: special device /...
su(pam_unix)[196]: session opened for user dsl by (uid=0)

Resolution: 800x600
preferred color depth: 16 bit

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btw, I haven't try booting from DOS, will working on it after I fixed keyboard command on DSL...
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Posted: Jan. 16 2005,15:36 QUOTE

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WARNING: Autodetection seems to hang, please check your computers BIOS settings
Please check


I noticed that warning when booting DSL, does that means DSL can't detect my HD thoroughly? Do I need disable HD dectection on boot?
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Posted: Jan. 16 2005,16:13 QUOTE

ok, I boot DSL with cheatcode

dsl noicons base xsetup,

but how to open terminal with keyboard command only?
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