sekyunseung
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Posted: June 19 2006,03:12 |
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I am having a problem installing DSL to my laptop. Shortly after pressing [Enter] when the DSL screen appears after booting, the screen says 'you passed an undefined mode number' and gives the options to press [Enter] for mode number options or the Space Bar to continue. If [Enter] is chosen, then then it gives the mode options of 80x25, 80x60 and similarly, but it does not matter which one I pick (even if I were to just press Space Bar to continue), because the system boots, but then I get a screen that is a bright purple colour and it is impossible to see most text because it looks like there is a white mesh over the screen. I can make out the Planet Saturn in the background and a window with text in it. The only text I can make out (barely) in the window is <<Getting started DSL>> at the top and some kind of round image next to it. If I choose [F3] right after the CD boots, it gives a screen that says boot time vga options. I choose <<dsl vga=788>> for a 16 bit, 800x600 size monitor (usually what I have used with all of the other OS's I have used with the computer) and all I get is the same screen that is bright blue instead of purple.
Just in case there have ever been any problems with any of these, here is a nearly exhaustive list of details about the computer, download and burning to CD.
The Laptop is an IBM Thinkpad 380ED with 48MB memory, 166MHz processor, 2.5GB Hard Drive (most of my OS's have actually said it is a bit higher than 2.5, some as high as 3.0GB) manufacutred in 1997 or 1998. It currently runs Windows 98, is (according to a sticker near the battery) built for Windows 95, and in the past it has run Windows 2000 and SUSE Linux 7.3, the only problems being it was a bit slower than I would have liked and SUSE 7.3 took up a whole gigabyte. It has no internet connection and I do not intend for it to go onto the internet or any network.
I downloaded dsl-2.4-syslinux.iso from the Austrian site (the site was the first one that loaded quickly, and the DSL image for newer computers simply would not boot at all). The CD is a TDK CD-R created using the Sonic CD creator on a Windows XP computer.
What am I doing wrong? I looked all over the forums, and have not found a similar problem, but there is someone who posted with the exact same model asking about PCMCIA wireless cards, leading me to believe that it is possible to install DSL onto this model. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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