Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > lists wrote: >> since the livecd doesn't want to boot on my old laptop, I'm starting to >> think that it's a lack of ram on the laptop that is the issue. >> > The old 6.2-5 CD is undebuggable (and even worse, problems cannot be > worked around) because of the binary init. Please try the latest > semi-stable CD: > http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r1952-nosrc.iso > or (if you want sources on the CD) > http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r1952.iso > > And any "does not boot" report is a P1 critical bug. > Alex, the latest version I tested is r1950. grub loads the first boot screen, after that it gets as far as reading the squashfs then hangs. I recently checked with slakware net install, and it booted, but wouldn't actually install. This caused me to check the slak based Vector and it hung at the same point as the lfs livecd r1950.
a install cd which doesn't use squashfs will boot, so I may have to remaster the livecd to be a source free version running off the cd drive instead of a ram mounted image. this old dell inspiron 3000 is a pentium mmx @ 266MHz, so it's old and limited in resources, only a 3 GB hd and 111 MB ram [ with bios and video cached out of that ] usb 1.1 [ one slot only ] and pcmcia cardbus for additional hardware. [ networking through the pcmcia only ] since I don't have anything with ir support, I'm not sure if the irda device in it does work. This is the one system I have been fighting to get a recent version of any linux to install, right now it only seems to like Mandrake 8.2 it won't even install an older version of debian woody I have on cd. [ defaults to the 2.4 kernel as does the slak 10.1 cds I have ] Jaqui -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
