User Feedback :: how many computers tested

I have discovered DSL not so long ago and really like it.

As you can easily take it with you, tried on several computers, these are the results :

Daewoo, P III,550 mhz works great
AMD Athlon xp 1800, works great
P IV, ( friend computer ), only boot in failsafe mode
HP Laptop, P III, only boot in failsafe mode
Dell 2400, failsafe only but weird ( no icons )
P Bell, P III, 450 mhz, not booting at all ( maybe cd-rom problem )
Toshiba laptop, P I, not booting at all from cd-rom
IBM, P I, desktop, not booting even with floppy.

On the systems that require the failsafe,
experiment with these options at boottime ..

noapic nomce noscsi nopcmcia

The first two have been most successful for me..

73
ke4nt

Asus P3B-F / P3-700mhz / 512megs

Runs pretty damn fast.

DSl runs on 486 too.
I tried once w/ 16Mg of Ram, it booted up but no GUI (probelsm w/ xserver)
So your P1 should boot. you just try with different options...
btw if it doesn't boot with cd, maybe it's just that you have to change your boot options on BIOS?

Old Laptop Newbie user since V 0.4 - now using v 0.73 . 133mhz 40megs Ram, 12.5" TFT display at 800x600max. No battery, no CD Rom. Used framebuffer fb800x600 line at live boot - HD installed. Loads of .DSL extensions and other 'apt-get' things added (eg. XFmail, Abiword, Firestarter, Plan, various themes and wallpaper - all load and look great, have made desktop icons for all programs which didn't install them by default). This old thing stills runs fast enough to mean it is my regular home machine and my two year old windoze PC. is maintained purely for the rest of the family. Even Open Office .DSL installed fine (with icons) and opened up fine but veeerrrryy slooowww - deleted now.

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