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Posted: Oct. 16 2006,20:08 QUOTE

I think the easiest would be to leave your cd in there while you boot with your syslinux floppy.
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Posted: Oct. 17 2006,15:42 QUOTE

Thanks ^thehatsrule^
can't do that as my thinkpad only has one bay for cdrom or floppy.
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Posted: Oct. 20 2006,15:36 QUOTE

Finally got to boot from syslinux floppy with cd files copied to harddisk.
Now startup stops after:
entering runlevel 5
xinit: broken pipe (errno32): unable to connect to xauthority.
xinit: no such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 13.
dsl@tty1[dsl]$_

PS builtin modem never worked on this 486dx4. Have been using 3com lan/modem pcmcia with Win98se.
Any suggestions?
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Posted: Oct. 20 2006,16:28 QUOTE

[EDIT]: This thread looks useful: http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....72;st=0

Are there any other errors, warnings, (or the like) before that?
Maybe try booting with failsafe - check the wiki page on cheatcodes for more info.

See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:755CD
which shows http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/MWave_MDSP2780
which looks like bad news
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Posted: Oct. 20 2006,19:00 QUOTE

Thanks ^thehatsrule^.
Decided to leave the old laptop as a backup for my Desktop/Win2k. Not worth trying to get blood out of a turnip.
By the way DSL works fine on my desktop (which is also 'old').
By the way is it possible to save the dial-up and email configs so that I don't have to set it up each time I use DSL?.
Many thanks for your time and effort.
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