gjhicks
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Posted: June 22 2005,06:46 |
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Hello,
Am trying to get an ancient laptop working with DSL, to use as a firewall on my home network.
The laptop is an "ORIS" (think it is a un-badged toshiba?)
- Tillamook-MMX CPU (called mobile pentium in linux) 300mhz
- 64mb ram
- no hard drive
- usb cdrom
- floppy
- neomagic magicgraph 128x graphic adapter
I used a DOS 6.22 boot disk, with utilities to get the usb cdrom working under DOS - usbaspi.sys and usbcd.sys (thanks to the puppy linux people)
After booting, the usb cdrom appears as drive G:
I used loadlin to boot DSL, as follows:
"loadlin @dsl.par" where dsl.par contains:
g:\boot\isolinux\linux24
initrd=g:\boot\isolinux\minirt24.gz
dsl 2 lang=us noagp nofirewire noswap noapic nopcmcia base norestore
The laptop boots to the console prompt without any apparent errors.
When I try Xvesa (using 800x600, 16) it creates the Xauthority file and just goes blank, no errors, just blank. I tried several other Xvesa resolution and color depth combinations, same result.
When I try using FBServer, with fb800x600 in the boot command, after the Xauthority file is created, I get the following error:
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ": 0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
It goes back to the console prompt - which still functions.
Any help, suggestions or comments from others who have faced such problems much appreciated.
Regards,
Geoff.
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