On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:56:35 Tom Munro Glass wrote: > On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:39:14 Nick Rout wrote: > > I am running virtualbox on a windows xp machine with slax linux as guest. > > > > windows host is running 1024x768 which sounds pathetic but I am > > comfortable with it. > > > > slax client starts at 1280x1024, which means its in a scrollable > > window. Its a pain in the proverbial. > > > > For the life of me I cannot figure out how to adjust the size that > > client will be. The only "display" setting seems to be the ram > > allocated to the disply driver. Should I just reduce this so that it > > thinks it cannot draw such a big screen? > > > > slax is booting from an .iso. > > A stab in the dark since I don't use virtualbox, but can you set the > resolution as a linux boot option? In other words just as the .iso starts > booting, type: > > linux vga=773 > > I use this technique with VMware Server. > > Tom Munro Glass > I forgot to say, check out the following url for a list of Linux video mode numbers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions Tom
