User Feedback :: DSL 0.8.0 issues

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problem number 1. - I think this has something to do with ISOLinux, but 0.8 will boot on some computers, but not on others especially on my main desktop, which has a Plextor Premium 52-48-52. it won't even get past the "ISOLinux 2.04..." before the boot command line...

This item was further up in the thread, and I have been working with this problem all weekend. I'm out of machines to test this on, and I have a wild idea: I have broadband at work, and as usual, there are employees with nothing to do between smoking breaks, so I'm going to take a 256 MB pen drive down there and get one of them to download an iso for another small linux distro, that uses ISOLinux. Not sure which one right now, I'll have to look around on Distrowatch, but Feather Linux, an offshoot of DSL and Knoppix looks good. I already have an older version, but I note that the newest one is based on kernel 2.4.26.
I'm betting that it uses ISOLinux, and that I'll run into the same problems as DSL 0.8.2, in that it won't boot on 3 of my 4 machines.
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Just testing... But I feel a little like  The detective "Columbo" in my fishing
around and bringing attention to the booting problem.
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Any thoughts as to why xvesa wouldn't like my machine in v.8, when it did in pre-v.8?

That's a new one on me.  Apparently you are able to get to a prompt, but not X. I would think that your video card is not supported or something like that, but the part about it working in pre-v.8 stumps me.
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There I go with my "Columbo" stuff again!
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In my opinion, the success of Windows is that the machines came preinstalled with it, and Windows (3.1, 95, 98 and now XP) booted up to
the GUI. Computer manufacturers and Microsoft made sure of that.
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Now they are having problems with security, and that will probably
cause them to lose users to Linux. We, in the linux community are benefiting from the big hard drives, lots of memory, fancy usb setups, fast processors, etc. that Windows required the manufacturers to have
in their machines. IF our OS's will run on those machines. And there are a lot of them out there. The XP Service Pack 2 probably is destined to go on 200 million machines. I have my CD from them already, and have deployed it on several XP boxes. That's just the beginning, since more and more applications need updating to provide a secure computing environment.
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All of that is unnecessary if DSL is run on the machine! IF it will run on the machine.
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Everything should be done to make sure that it does, or those users will have to look elsewhere. Wall Street Journal recommends that users unhappy with Windows look to Apple, and the Mac.  Live Linux CD's were not mentioned, as the target audience of WSJ, although rich, are deemed to be technically challenged, hence the Mac recommendation.
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I have DSL cd's all over the place here in my computer room, and often one is placed in the cdrom drive, ready to go on that box, with a backup.tar.gz in /dev/hda1, usually. Most of them are 0.6.2, or remasters of that. I have one 0.8.2 remaster in this machine, with Opera.
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It would be nice to have 0.8.2 in all machines here, but that is not possible if they cannot boot the OS.
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