Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Pentium133 and DSL Linux

Got this running at the Grandparents this weekend;

google for: "dsl loadlin how to" and you get a link to the dsl wiki.

Only one annoyance: windows 98 (surprise).
it didn't close/restart properly, and the install on that machine didn't have a menu on startup;

so when I ran loadlin.exe @options.txt, that worked ok, but then trying to go back didn't work...

it seemed permanently stuck in DSL;
to get back, I had to
1) put the CD in the cd drive
2) restart DSL, from the CD, not HD
3) mount the hard disk (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -o rw)
4) move the isolinux dir (mv isolinux isolinux.mv)
5) reboot.

other notes:
no flash plugin on that install;
a pentium 133 is almost usable... was very slow...

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