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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,01:34 QUOTE

Despite my enthusiasm for this version there are a few issues: (ibm laptop 560z, 128Mb ram):
 mc (midnight commander) refuses to write (as superuser) when editing /boot/grub/menu.lst after I did a harddisk install -- nano worked perfectly.
Issue two: and I'm less certain about this, is that I had erratic problems with network connection thru a usb to ethernet (netgear  ea101)adapter (the ibm 560z has no builtin ethernet) while using the pcmcia cdrom.  So I'm wondering about a possible timeing or sequencing issue here?
Cold reboots solved this for me but it seems odd.
 The great thing is dsl is on my harddisk and grub works great!
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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,09:02 QUOTE

Quote (roberts @ Mar. 11 2006,19:02)
Didn't you already post this and got an answer from John?
I personally don't have such hardware, but I believe the answer was  to not only change the bios setting to USB-ZIP, but also to reinstall DSL onto the pendrive as USB-ZIP and proably, most likely, change the BIOS to also enable USB keyboard, even if you don't have one. These USB-ZIP tips are in the Wiki. Like I said, I don't have this hardware but USB-ZIP usually requires these.

Yes, I posted this when 2.2 and 2.2b were new.  I tried John's ZIP suggestions, and it will not even boot -- it just gets 'DISK BOOT FAILURE - INSERT BOOT DISK'  So, that does not work at all on my Bargain ITX Fanless.

The only things that work are:
1) Use an older minirt24.gz file
or
2) Turn OFF USB-2 support in the bios.

If the USB2 driver could be loaded AFTER DSL boots, it would probably work with USB2, but I am hardly expert enough to do this mod.   Perhaps someone can figure this out --- it would be nice to have USB2 working on this box.
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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,16:26 QUOTE

RobertS, I jumped at the chance to use this 2.3RC1 with the pmcia boot disk so that I boot my Tishiba Portege from the external CDrom.  It doesn't work I am afraid on this - I get the regular "cannot find knoppix files" message then am dropped to the shell.  I have tried all boot parameters. The cdrom and pcmia card/cable are both original optional items supplied with the notebook.  I am forced to you the poor mans boot from DOS hda1 copied files.  CDRom cannot be mounted after this.  I think this pcmcia bootdisk feature is worth pursuing as it seems a devil to get these things working even for windows reinstalls.  Ubuntu knows what to do with this cdrom automatically there is a seamless install.
Anyway, lilac /purple  new theme is really nice - keep up the excellent work.
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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,17:57 QUOTE

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I jumped at the chance to use this 2.3RC1 with the pmcia boot disk so that I boot my Tishiba Portege from the external CDrom.  It doesn't work I am afraid

Try using dsl noapic frompcmcia

When you use the second bootfloppy with the pcmcia drivers what happens?  Do you get cardmanager engaged? Can you hear your cdrom turning?
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Posted: Mar. 12 2006,20:43 QUOTE

I've noticedwhen using the new save script for wireless that the entry for /opt/myprism.sh is written in /opt/bootlocal.sh everytime I make a change. This results in several connects and disconnects on reboot until I go in and delete the extra entries.

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