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babylonc

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Posted: April 13 2005,10:09

First of all, forgive me if my English is not very good but I am French and controls English rather badly.

I have P75 with 24MB of RAM and 812Mo on the hard disk. My P75 does not enable me to charge CD with starting, it is necessary for me a diskette of starting for that.
I tried to install various distributions of linux on my old PC but that still does not function! DSL remains the distrib with which I arrive at going further at the time of the install, the others, for the majority, fails as of the boot (they do not want to start).
Though I choose like option of boot, I end up obtaining lines containing "error". When I try to copy the contents of Cd from the hard disk, I obtain:
several lines with "cloop : error"
"FAT : bogus logical sector size 0
Kernel panic : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 01:03"

If I try to launch in RAM (dsl RAM or dsl toram), I obtain:
"/home/dsl/.xinitrc : line 7 : 302 Bus error
C/dsl/getting_started.html >&/dev/null
/home/dsl/.xinitrc : line 7 : 303 Bus error
Waiting for X server to shut down..."

Would have a solution to help me?
Thanks.

cbagger01

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Posted: April 13 2005,12:14

1. "toram" will not work with your computer. It requires 128MB of RAM to work properly.

2. Here is how I get DSL to work with my old P5-60:

Boot up the computer using the old OS (MSDOS,Win3.1,Win95,FreeDOS)
If necessary, configure the CDROM driver so that you can read a CD disk.
Copy the \knoppix\knoppix file over from the liveCD to C:\knoppix\knoppix

Download the dsl boot floppy image:
http://ibiblio.org/pub....8.0.img

Download the rawrite (DOS) or rawrite32 (Windows95 or newer) program.
Rawrite:
http://www.tux.org/pub/dos/rawrite/rawrite2.exe
Rawrite32:
http://www.duskware.com/download/rawrite.exe

Then use rawrite/rawrite32 to create a DSL boot floppy using the boot floppy image

Finally, reboot your computer with the boot floppy inserted into the drive.

babylonc
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Posted: April 13 2005,12:28

Thanks.
I had not copied D:/knoppix/knoppix towards C:/knoppix/knoppix I will try to see whether that makes it possible the installation to be done. The remainder it is what I had done and that did not function.
If not I will essairai to configure my reader CD with the suitable driver but I do not know if that comes from there, considering at the time of the install CD undertake and am recognized. Lastly, I do not have anything to lose to test that:)
Thank you still.

babylonc
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Posted: April 13 2005,14:15

I had forgotten, under DOS (I formatted my hard disk but I gave DOS) my PC does not identify the reader CD. I suppose that I thus need the driver. However I do not know the mark of my reader CD... There is right writing "quad speed" above, it is not the mark! There is a means so that I find the mark?

cbagger01

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Posted: April 14 2005,03:33

See if you have an original driver disk available.

Usually there is a MSCDEX extension driver that can be loaded in your CONFIG.SYS that allows you to use your CDROM drive from DOS.

Otherwise, your options are to post the manufacturer and model number of your PC and maybe can find the drivers on the internet.

If you know the manufacturer and model number of your CDROM drive itself and maybe your sound card (if the CDROM drive ribbon cable is connected to the sound card instead of the motherboard) it will also help.

Finally, you could try the floppy disk method or the plip (parallel port to parallel port connection) method. These methods will allow you to copy the file over to your C: drive without requiring that the CDROM drive be used. You do need a second computer to do this, however.

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