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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,14:29

yea its a piece of work huh

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Posted: Dec. 22 2005,14:31

Good morning Sarah

Thanks for the kind reply

I use the switch DSL 2 LOWRAM MINIMAL when that happened.

Now when I try the switch that you gave me... i get the same result.

Also late last nite I reformatted my HD via CFDISK to allocate 250MB for Linux swap and then installed msdos6.22 on the remaining 850MB...

typing the command sudo su and then fdisk -L..

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Disk /dev/hda: 1083 MB, 1083801600 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 525 cyl
units=cylinders of 4032*512 = 2064384 bytes

device boot start end blocks id system
/dev/hda1 * 405 525 243936 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 1 404 814432 6 FAT16

I needed to do the above just so I can install msdos6.22 + the driver for the parallel-port external cdrom drive so I can copy the KNOPPIX directory to my root C:

so anywayz.. back to the boot up error............

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fat: bogus logical sector size 17408
vfs : cant find a valind fat filesystem on dev 03:01

su(pam_unix)[736]: session opened for user dsl by (uid=0)
Using Xvesa default 1024x768x32 -mouse "/dev/psaux" mouse
xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority

givng up.
xinit: Broken pipe (errno 32): unable to connect to X server.
xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 13
dsl@tty1[dsl$]_

running xsetup.sh to implement 640x480x8-bit yields the same error

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Posted: Dec. 23 2005,09:11

oh well.. i dont want to ruin xmas for everybody so i'll resume workin on this next year. MERRRY CHRISTMAS everyone

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Posted: Dec. 25 2005,07:21

well..... idk how much help i'm goin 2 be with this because i haven't really used linux before in my life but i've been reading a lot about it because i really wanna get into it...... my suggestion on this matter would be get rid of linux and find a way of getting the windows os that u had on there back on there so that u can access the cd rom......and than after that try 2 follow wut the other forum posters had 2 say about this matter.... good luck :;):

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Posted: Dec. 27 2005,19:17

FYI,

if you make a linux swap partition using fdisk you still need to format it with a command like:

mkswap /dev/hda1

Also, try this:

Code Sample

dsl 1 vga=normal atapicd noideraid nosound noapic noacpi acpi=off noscsi noapm nousb nopcmcia nofirewire noagp nomce mem=16M

where you replace the "16M" with the amount of the RAM installed in your computer. The "M" at the end must be UPPERCASE letter.

You can also try some of the framebuffer modes listed on page F3 of the boot menu with a command like:

dsl vga=769 xsetup

and then choose the "xfbdev" server when prompted.

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