Other Help Topics :: HOWTO HD install on a machine with only a floppy

OK - I was patient enough and now am booting off of the HD.

But... doing the xsetup.sh, I choose frame buffering, becasue VESA will never start and the laptop gets locked up (no response from numlock keypresses to the numlock light).

When I "startx" I get : modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X Server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Quote (redsoxfan @ June 23 2004,22:02)

D'oh!!!!

I re-started the whole procedure from scratch. NOW the darn thing won't run cfdisk - it says there is a "fatal error" and "press any key to exit cfdisk"

What did I do? I re-fdisk'd the hard drive (from DOS) for the 1st partition, copied the files from a IDE attached CDROM, then rebooted with the DSL boot disk.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Possible bad copy of the image to /dev/hda1
my suggestion would be to do a complete (secure wipe(I have a premade image at dban wipdisk) of your hd (mbr and all) since you have access to a cdrom drive.

Its always good to completely wipe (not format) a drive back to factory default b4 installing an os anyway

Brian
AwPhuch

Quote (Guest @ June 24 2004,00:34)

I just wanted to say that i have run this on an old panasonic CF-35 laptop and have been able to get this running but my screen comes up all green. Any idea's on how to fix the res.?

I am running a 275mhz with 32mb of ram on a panasonic cf35 laptop.

That has to do with the display or possibly X11 settings...there is a thread just for that...

Sorry I cant help more...good luck

Brian
AwPhuch

Any ideas on my previous post? I have tried this with a Thinkpad 365X also and get the exact same results.

OK - I was patient enough and now am booting off of the HD.

But... doing the xsetup.sh, I choose frame buffering, becasue VESA will never start and the laptop gets locked up (no response from numlock keypresses to the numlock light).

When I "startx" I get : modprobe: Can't locate module fb0
XIO fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X Server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining:(

Try adding "vga=789" to your boot command line in lilo.

Search the forums for LILO to get more details.

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