--- In [email protected], "Ty Giannattasio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Guys, > I am trying to boot up DSL linux and I am able to get it started and then it stops when it says it is "uncompressing linux....... Ok, booting the Kernel" > What can i do to make this work?? It is on a pc that I rebuilt, it is from old parts but it should still work. 366MHz cpu and 64Mb of ram. DSL 50MB so I still might not have enough ram. It booted up fine on my other PC 1.1GHz cpu and 1Gb of ram. > Any help would be great. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
If you haven't already, verify the CD against the *.iso file you downloaded. 64MB is a tight squeeze for a Linux with GUI, but it is possible. I've gotten D*mn Small to run on similar hardware -- and failed with other similar hardware. If there's a graphics card compatibility issue or something, a minimalist distro like DSL might not have the drivers needed on the disk! Besides D*amn Small, also try the following distros on your machine: Puppy Linux 2.15 (or the newest release, 3.1 if you feel more daring), Feather Linux 0.7.5, and Morphix (XFCE-based). Look them up on distrowatch.com or google. I've tried all three myself, I guarantee that at least one of the above will work with your hardware. Morphix in particular I've gotten to work on a 200MHz P-II with 64MB. Feather is the one I've had the best luck with on the most machines. If you have some way to set up a Linux swap partition on the hard drive *before* starting the LiveCD, that may also help. Swap effectively multiplies the RAM available, even if it is slow-w-w-w. There is a floppy-based partitioning program called Ranish Partition Manager ( http://www.ranish.com ) that would let you do that. It's *very* old-sk00l dos-6-shell graphic style ;). This assumes you're willing to sacrifice part if not all of the existing partition on the hard drive. IIRC, Ranish isn't sophisticated enough to resize partitions non-destructively (what do you expect for soemthing that fits on a floppy?); most current versions of Linux's "Gparted" can resize non-destructively, so if you can get the LiveCD running, that's probably better. To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
