Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ June 22 2005,01:05) |
Also, you can get a 44-to-40 pin IDE adapter for just a few bucks at your local fry's or compusa. Then you can do the frugal install on another box and then move it back to your lappy. -J.P. |
Quote (skaos @ June 24 2005,07:39) |
Given that your laptop has a 160 MB disk, I would guess that your laptop at best has a 486 processor with 8 MB ram. That simply isn't enough to run DSL in graphical mode. You could try to write "dsl 1" (without quotes) at the "boot:"-prompt. This should boot you into single user and command line. If that doesn't work, download and install Basic Linux (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/) and run the following two commands to find processor and memory: more /proc/cpuinfo free |