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Topic: No floppy no CD-rom, all I have is a pcmcia nic

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henk1955

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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,20:13

first you to the above.
then if you have a working dsl you
you come back to ask how to remove windows
one thing at a time!

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Posted: Sep. 23 2004,20:40

Sure will do

Beatryder

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Posted: Sep. 24 2004,02:16

OK, I got that working....
Now what?
Also is there any way I can pass it some params that will force X to use 640x480 screen res
as thats the max my little LCD can handle

So far I have been able to config it via command line using "xsetup.sh"

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Posted: Sep. 24 2004,11:28

I guess the simplest would be to take out the hard disk, put it into your desktop (disconnect all other HDs), install DSL and then put it back. I have a DSL 0.4.8 HD install on a laptop and as far as I can tell, a HD install does autoconfig more or less in the same way as booting from a live CD (does anyone know if this still is true for the newest DSL version?)

henk1955

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Posted: Sep. 24 2004,13:04

i think it is best to stay with this poorman's install.
it is very easy to upgrade to a newer version than a full hd-install and i dont think a hardisk install has any advantages.
one mistake, one faulty MyDSL extension and your hd-instaliation could be gone and you have to start all over again.

now you can delete all windows files
but keep all files needed to boot to dsl
command.com mysdos.sys io.sys loadlin.exe, loadlin.par, linux.bat.
change autoexec.bat so it starts linux.bat

if you use backup/restore as explained in "Getting Started With DSL"
"Saving Your Cofiguration" you have to do you xsetup.sh only once.

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