ZsigE
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Posted: Sep. 21 2006,23:32 |
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Hi, I'm an absolute newbie to Linux and thought that DSL would be a good introduction. Unfortunately I'm having difficulties getting it to boot in the first place.
I have a HP Pavilion ze4500 laptop with a 518MHz processor and 192MB of RAM. I've burnt a Live CD from the standard ISO (dsl-3.0.1.iso), and when I switch on the computer with that in the drive, it gets to the logo screen and the first prompt all right, but then whatever I do, I can't get DSL to load.
I've tried most of the more obvious boot options (like failsafe, lowram and so on) as well as less obvious ones like a couple of the fb options, but either everything instantly vanishes and I'm left with a black screen, or it gives me a few lines of text and then refuses to respond or do anything at all. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to hold down the power button becaue absolutely nothing else responds.
The weird thing is that DSL ran fine under QEMU from inside Windows XP on the same machine, just too slowly to be of any use, so I'd imagine it's not a deficit of RAM or anything. Any help would be very much appreciated!
ZsigE
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